{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "376cd5c49965b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09a.4.5", "colnum": "4", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give details.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I first welcome the hon. Gentleman to his new responsibilities; it is a bit like old times for him and me. We spent many years—it felt like many years—debating care standards legislation in Standing Committee, so today brings back happy memories for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09a.4.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "376cd5c49965b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09a.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " be drawn up by the National Assembly itself. In his party's interests, may I discourage the hon. Gentleman from making such interventions, as he has provoked me to produce even more evidence? I have it on good authority from my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, West (Kevin Brennan) that Helen Mary Jones lives in his constituency and is one of his constituents. We have a leaked memorandum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09a.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "376cd5c49965b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09a.46.2", "colnum": "46", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I would have expected the hon. Gentleman to look forwards rather than backwards, because he will run for office in his party at some stage. If he does not run for office, perhaps he will run to become president of the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09a.46.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "376cd5c49965b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09a.47.3", "colnum": "47", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "they want. However, although the Government are prepared to concede a referendum, at some point in the future, on the primary law-making powers set out in part 4, they do not provide for one on the new legislative procedures in part 3. That is inconsistent and wrong, and we will seek to persuade the Secretary of State to provide for an earlier referendum on the proposals for the two-stage process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09a.47.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "376cd5c49965b3ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Most?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "I fully agree with my hon. Friend, as I do on most matters that relate to devolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.4.3", "colnum": "4", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I agree very strongly with my hon. Friend and I am sure that I speak for every person in this House today when I say that we mourn the death of Tony Banks, who was an outstanding Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.4.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.4.5", "colnum": "4", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give details.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "I first welcome the hon. Gentleman to his new responsibilities; it is a bit like old times for him and me. We spent many years—it felt like many years—debating care standards legislation in Standing Committee, so today brings back happy memories for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.4.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.6.7", "colnum": "6", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "Let me remind the hon. Gentleman what his party said during the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.6.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.7.5", "colnum": "7", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "I did not catch all of that, but I will not ask the hon. Gentleman to write to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.7.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": " means-testing, under the previous Government or this Government, has reduced saving on the part of pensioners, but since 1997 there has been much greater confidence in the economy and in the future, which is largely what has led to the changes to which the hon. Gentleman refers. In 1992, when there was deep anxiety about the future of the economy, people saved more. Today they are more confident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.14.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a good point in the first part of his question and asks a reasonable question to follow. If we were to see an unreasonable or anti-Welsh Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ill and there would be no prospect of extra powers for the Assembly. That is the policy of the new Tory party, the new Cameron Conservatives, in Wales: to kill devolution stone dead here today, Monday 9 January . That is a great shame and I expected more of the hon. Lady. I thought that she would display a pro-Welsh position, as she was at least born in Wales, which is better than her predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "tes use the list as an insurance against failing to win a constituency contest. This dual candidacy can also confuse the electorate, who may wish to consciously reject a particular candidate only to find them elected via the list. It should remain a basic democratic right not to elect a particular candidate or to be able to vote a Member out.\" Lord Carlile, the former Welsh Liberal Democrat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.41.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " be drawn up by the National Assembly itself. In his party's interests, may I discourage the hon. Gentleman from making such interventions, as he has provoked me to produce even more evidence? I have it on good authority from my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, West (Kevin Brennan) that Helen Mary Jones lives in his constituency and is one of his constituents. We have a leaked memorandum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "Although I am impressed by Conservative Front Benchers' apparent change of heart, will the hon. Lady describe what sanctions exist to punish errant young chaps on the Conservative Back Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.46.2", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I would have expected the hon. Gentleman to look forwards rather than backwards, because he will run for office in his party at some stage. If he does not run for office, perhaps he will run to become president of the Liberal Democrats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.46.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Crabb", "preceding_text": "My view is that the Welsh Assembly is not going to go away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "ic cities of the world. Such failures are summed up by our failure to deal with agriculture. During the foot and mouth crisis, I was telephoned by a farmer's wife from Raglan who was unable to get a movement licence for a bull because an official in the Welsh Assembly's agriculture department did not know what sex it was. Apparently, the farmer's wife had not included that information on the form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "do not come from the countryside should think about it. In contemplating giving more powers to the people responsible for such problems, I am reminded of what Herbert Morrison once said about giving more powers to the colonies. He said that it would be like giving a latchkey, a bank account and a shotgun to a 10-year-old. These people should not be trusted with more powers under any circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.84.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-09", "file": "debates2006-01-09b.xml", "sha256": "d08cf0518a7ecede", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Tami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Tami", "preceding_text": "ur came second with 46,000 votes, but got no additional list Members. The Tories were back on 35,000 votes—19 per cent. of the vote—and got three additional list Members. The Lib Dems were not far behind the Tories, but got no additional list Members. A party that got less than a fifth of the second vote got three quarters of the seats. That is obviously a very democratic system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-09b.98.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-10", "file": "debates2006-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "5a83e80c250cc8bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-10a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "interest. The Bill does not deal with the matter of keeping primates as pets, and another large grey area in the proposals has to do with circus animals. Children of my generation used to love going to the circus, where the animals' performance gave us much innocent pleasure. I remember, of course, the chimps' tea party. I did not see anything like it again until I saw Prime Minister's questions .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-10a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-10", "file": "debates2006-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "5a83e80c250cc8bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-10a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "blem solving, tool use and play. They are capable of associative and even observational learning and have individual responses and temperaments. Decapod crustaceans have the ability to learn, discriminate about their environment, remember and form stable social hierarchies. Scientists from Bristol university and the Silsoe institute have developed a humane electric stunner called the \"crustastun\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-10a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-10", "file": "debates2006-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "a2a8b50bab7f1ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-10b.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " ought to welcome the fact that one of the many achievements of the deal was to ensure that changes to the abatement mechanism kicked in not at the beginning of the financial perspective—in 2007, 2008, or 2009—but later on. The other issue for the whole Conservative party, which I gather is now committed to narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, is whether it is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-10b.145.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-10", "file": "debates2006-01-10b.xml", "sha256": "a2a8b50bab7f1ad1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-10b.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "e tails of dogs who are not registered or perhaps use them as working dogs will continue to do so without any veterinary supervision, and that is my major concern.In conclusion on that point, I simply say that if the system is not broken, why try to fix it? A closely regulated system by the veterinary profession seems to me to be the best system to take forward. I want to examine two other issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-10b.235.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-11", "file": "debates2006-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "9bf2e37aeb4c318e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-11a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "the various proportional representation systems, the names of all the candidates will not have to appear at the bottom of the documents, on which the imprint is quite large. Someone—I think it was a Conservative Back Bencher—asked about county council and other elections. [Interruption.] In fact, it was the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome. I apologise for calling him a Conservative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-11a.353.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-11", "file": "debates2006-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "8d74fc8d6132d514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-11b.279.3", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "On the heads vacancies, as the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows, it can be difficult to find the head of an organisation when the post is vacant, particularly if it is a failing organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-11b.279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-11", "file": "debates2006-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "8d74fc8d6132d514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-11b.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I should, of course, have welcomed the right hon. and learned Member for North-East Fife (Sir Menzies Campbell) . I shall give him an even bigger welcome if his position becomes permanent, not temporary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-11b.280.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-11", "file": "debates2006-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "8d74fc8d6132d514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-11b.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "In his last few months in office, will the Prime Minister look at the grotesque unfairness of the Government grant allocation to local authorities, which sees council tax payers in west Berkshire receiving approximately a third of the amount per head of non-schools grant allocation compared with council tax payers in parts of the north-east of England? Will he explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-11b.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-11", "file": "debates2006-01-11b.xml", "sha256": "8d74fc8d6132d514", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-11b.284.3", "colnum": "284", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Surely the hon. Gentleman's local authority has received significantly more money in real terms in the past few years. I understand that in, for example, education, there has been an extra £1,320 in funding per pupil in his area in the past few years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-11b.284.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-12", "file": "debates2006-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "d9b8d95ebfd63a97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12a.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "to get Crossrail off the ground? Will the Secretary of State give a clear, categorical public assurance today that the current Government intend to fund the lion's share of the construction of Crossrail, as they once said they would? Can he still make the same commitment that he made in the original 10-year plan document—that the Government would provide the funding to make Crossrail happen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12a.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-12", "file": "debates2006-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "fe432501831f528b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "oss-party consensus on higher education, will he join me in supporting all those engaged in the study and teaching of disciplines that greatly stimulate and develop the mind, but which do not have an immediate vocational application? May I also ask him finally to dissociate himself and his party from the remarks of the former Secretary of State, who deprecated the study of taxpayer-funded history?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-12", "file": "debates2006-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "fe432501831f528b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, I do not think that he is up to speed with what is happening with A-levels. We are seeking to make them tougher through the requirement to complete an extended project and other measures. In response to the views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-12", "file": "debates2006-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "fe432501831f528b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Rammell", "preceding_text": "The Government most certainly do not tamper with university admissions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-12", "file": "debates2006-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "fe432501831f528b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.425.3", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "May I take this opportunity to wish you, Mr. Speaker, and all Members and staff of the House a happy new year? Judging by the evidence of yesterday, it will be an entertaining new year, courtesy of the Liberal Democrat leadership contenders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-12", "file": "debates2006-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "fe432501831f528b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.431.4", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "The Government have put a significant amount of extra money into rural transport services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.431.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-12", "file": "debates2006-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "fe432501831f528b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Safeguarding Children", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "think that, with respect, the right hon. Gentleman has quite understood the point that I made. As Secretary of State, I take full responsibility for all the decisions that have been made in my Department, and I am here to answer questions on that basis. The fact of the matter is that the system for deciding those cases has been the same for decades, with Ministers taking sensitive decisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-12", "file": "debates2006-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "fe432501831f528b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.463.3", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Crossrail Bill [Instruction No. 2]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "to get Crossrail off the ground? Will the Secretary of State give a clear, categorical public assurance today that the current Government intend to fund the lion's share of the construction of Crossrail, as they once said they would? Can he still make the same commitment that he made in the original 10-year plan document—that the Government would provide the funding to make Crossrail happen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-12", "file": "debates2006-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "fe432501831f528b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Security of Supply", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "No, there definitely have been. I was grounded for two hours on the apron the other day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-12", "file": "debates2006-01-12b.xml", "sha256": "fe432501831f528b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Security of Supply", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "for gas. That was a crucial national resource. The immediate supplies are no longer there. I should be fascinated to hear from the Minister what estimates his Department has made of the extra oil and gas there would have been from the North sea had they not been so heavily taxed, especially by a windfall tax. That means that our import capacity and storage facilities are now perilously inadequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-12b.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-16", "file": "debates2006-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d3d7a9274c340f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16a.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "a number of commissioners, some of whom deal specifically with, for example, the Muslim community. The portfolio issue is a secondary consideration, but the hon. Gentleman is right to draw attention to paragraph 2 of schedule 1, because the issue of representation is the key point. The hon. Gentleman was kind enough to say that I have spoken eloquently, but I think that I have spoken for too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16a.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-16", "file": "debates2006-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "0d3d7a9274c340f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16a.608.4", "colnum": "608", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The Minister is right. The new commission will cost twice as much. We had that argument previously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16a.608.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-16", "file": "debates2006-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "7cfae2133a83f718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Well, Madam Speaker—I do apologise, Mr. Speaker. I was slightly distracted for a second. I certainly know that my hon. Friend can punch her weight in these arguments, and her key point about reservations is a fair one. It is a fair one to put to me as Home Secretary and to my colleagues to ensure that we provide the assurance that she is looking for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-16", "file": "debates2006-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "7cfae2133a83f718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.559.6", "colnum": "559", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I hear absolute assurances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-16", "file": "debates2006-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "7cfae2133a83f718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I think, although I have not checked up on my texts recently, that it is pretty socialist to say that an individual should possess their own identity and not have it stolen by somebody else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.560.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-01-16", "file": "debates2006-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "7cfae2133a83f718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.582.3", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Jones", "preceding_text": "nister to agree to it today, but my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton suggested an alternative way forward, and either would be acceptable to me. I would prefer the matter to be dealt with in this Bill, because that is the most sensible way forward. However, in view of the assurance that legislation will be introduced in this Parliament, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.582.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-16", "file": "debates2006-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "7cfae2133a83f718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Evan Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Evan Harris", "preceding_text": " for Beaconsfield (Mr. Grieve) , who apparently takes the view that guidance confuses rather than guides. I have heard him on a number of occasions eloquently demanding that mystifying pieces of legislation, of which the Government are, no doubt, on occasion capable, should be explained through guidance. I guess that those areas must have been more carefully chosen than the one that I chose today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-16", "file": "debates2006-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "7cfae2133a83f718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.604.3", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "a number of commissioners, some of whom deal specifically with, for example, the Muslim community. The portfolio issue is a secondary consideration, but the hon. Gentleman is right to draw attention to paragraph 2 of schedule 1, because the issue of representation is the key point. The hon. Gentleman was kind enough to say that I have spoken eloquently, but I think that I have spoken for too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-16", "file": "debates2006-01-16b.xml", "sha256": "7cfae2133a83f718", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Equality Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "My amendment was slightly different from the hon. Gentleman's amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-16b.606.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "432d4838bbfb1d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17b.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Rail freight has gone up 36 per cent. over the past few years. I have said before in the House on many occasions that I do not believe that the way to encourage freight is to continually subsidise it. We want to encourage the carriage of freight that is a commercial proposition. I am surprised that a Conservative Government—Conservative Opposition, rather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17b.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "432d4838bbfb1d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17b.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "erstand from those working in the agency, however, that many such cases that are reported to the court are not proceeded with by the fiscals. There is an urgent need for a multi-agency approach to link up the agency with the court and to make sure that the court plays its part. The Minister might think that it is my favourite reading, but there was another story in last Sunday's Sunday Mail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17b.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "432d4838bbfb1d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17b.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "d to worse. I can happily support the Liberal Democrat motion, because it does not provide a specific solution, and I can also happily support the Government's amendment, which recognises the difficulties with the agency. While it mentions Stephen Geraghty's report, however, it does not tell us what is in it and what the Government will do. Until we get that information, all that we can say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17b.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17b.xml", "sha256": "432d4838bbfb1d7b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17b.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "from parents was almost impossible to implement efficiently. Often, those parents no longer communicated with each other and were reluctant to deal with a third party. A forest must have been sacrificed to provide the paper for the continual stream of assessments that were sent out. I was elected in 1997, and I remember dealing with my first CSA complaint. It was a bit like going on my first date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17b.756.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "171e1ef99d425c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Rail freight has gone up 36 per cent. over the past few years. I have said before in the House on many occasions that I do not believe that the way to encourage freight is continually to subsidise it. We want to encourage the carriage of freight that is a commercial proposition. I am surprised that a Conservative Government—Conservative Opposition, rather—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "171e1ef99d425c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.693.5", "colnum": "693", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "n is right, however. It is worth bearing it in mind that, in 1998, about 8 million people travelled on low-cost airlines. The figure for 2004 was 54 million. I said before that, in relation to aviation generally, people travelling more for business and leisure was a good thing. I do not think that the Government are in a position to say to people, \"You cannot go abroad. You must stay here.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.693.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "171e1ef99d425c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": " and its relation to its administration costs. At present, as the Prime Minister acknowledged in November, for every £1 in administration costs, the CSA collects only £1.85 from absent parents, and the figure has fallen over the past five years. That compares with a ratio of 1:8.5 in Australia; in other words, the Australian system is more than four times as effective as our own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.708.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "171e1ef99d425c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "erstand from those working in the agency, however, that many such cases that are reported to the court are not proceeded with by the fiscals. There is an urgent need for a multi-agency approach to link up the agency with the court and to make sure that the court plays its part. The Minister might think that it is my favourite reading, but there was another story in last Sunday's Sunday Mail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "171e1ef99d425c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "d to worse. I can happily support the Liberal Democrat motion, because it does not provide a specific solution, and I can also happily support the Government's amendment, which recognises the difficulties with the agency. While it mentions Stephen Geraghty's report, however, it does not tell us what is in it and what the Government will do. Until we get that information, all that we can say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "171e1ef99d425c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "from parents was almost impossible to implement efficiently. Often, those parents no longer communicated with each other and were reluctant to deal with a third party. A forest must have been sacrificed to provide the paper for the continual stream of assessments that were sent out. I was elected in 1997, and I remember dealing with my first CSA complaint. It was a bit like going on my first date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "171e1ef99d425c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Civil Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross (John Thurso) said before he left the Chamber that Labour Members would raise that issue, because they are desperate to find anything to divide the Liberal Democrats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "171e1ef99d425c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Civil Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "May we please have some clarity? I hope that the hon. Gentleman will agree that, when he talks about nuclear waste, he must clarify whether he means high-level, medium or low-level waste. The amount of high-level waste in the United Kingdom would barely fill a large football pitch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-17", "file": "debates2006-01-17c.xml", "sha256": "171e1ef99d425c92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Civil Nuclear Power", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "Time is short. My hon. Friend the Member for Twickenham made a compelling argument about cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-17c.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "4298c6498c8cd36a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18a.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "It depends how one interprets those words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18a.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "a part-time Secretary of State for Wales. If the right hon. Gentleman went to Gwynedd and north Wales, people would tell him that there is one NHS dentist available for the whole of north Wales. His support for the vacuous and specious plan for an all-Wales police force is laughable. In the elegant words of his colleague the hon. Member for Clwyd, South (Mr. Jones) , it is \"bloody nonsense\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.831.4", "colnum": "831", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Julie Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julie Morgan", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the key issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.831.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.834.3", "colnum": "834", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.835.4", "colnum": "835", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Luff", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Luff", "preceding_text": "I agreed with the Prime Minister in the Liaison Committee, when he told me that \"the reorganisation of local police is something where it really is sensible to listen to local people.\" However, a uniquely detailed public consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.835.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.836.5", "colnum": "836", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I welcome what the Prime Minister has said, but targets for Government Departments are something over which he has control and about which he could be more ambitious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.836.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.838.6", "colnum": "838", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman should let the Prime Minister answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.838.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "With due respect to hon. Members, the bulk of the reason for their position is that the CBI has withdrawn its support for the Bill because of the issue of direct payments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "In that case, I welcome it, because the Minister is a good friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "eople have families themselves, and must often do the work late at night or at weekends when they too could be improving their work-life balances. There is another important point, which has not been mentioned today but which should be borne in mind. Members of Parliament may have staff who take maternity leave. I face the delightful prospect of two staff members' taking maternity leave this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.872.5", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Lamb", "preceding_text": "Busy in North Norfolk, yes. One is in London and the other is in North Norfolk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.872.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "It depends how one interprets those words.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.893.6", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "that she minded. It was the fashion at the time that if a woman who was a qualified civil servant got married, she was required to give up work there and then because it was assumed that she would have a baby more or less immediately. Of course, my mother was very fortunate because she gave up the civil service and had me, although I would not necessarily expect the whole House to agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.893.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.893.6", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "as required to give up work there and then because it was assumed that she would have a baby more or less immediately. Of course, my mother was very fortunate because she gave up the civil service and had me, although I would not necessarily expect the whole House to agree with that. [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Tooting (Mr. Khan) would like to disagree, I will certainly give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.893.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.904.0", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Weir", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Weir", "preceding_text": "It will probably come as no surprise for the House to learn that we do not always see eye to eye with Labour Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.904.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Work and Families Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "At least he can wave hello to daddy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.917.0", "colnum": "917", "heading": "PARISH COUNCILS (PLANNING)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " was backed up by planning policy statement 1, \"Delivering Sustainable Development\", which supports the role of parish plans in encouraging town and parish councils to develop full and active community involvement in their areas, and PPS 12, \"Creating Local Development Frameworks\", which urges local authorities to \"consider how best to incorporate parish plans within supplementary plan documents\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.917.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-18", "file": "debates2006-01-18b.xml", "sha256": "874fd670c20017c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "PARISH COUNCILS (PLANNING)", "cue_speaker": "David Drew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Drew", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) on choosing this subject for debate, and I praise him for choosing a night to debate it on which the business of the House has collapsed. That has given us the longest opportunity that we will probably ever have to discuss parish and town councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-18b.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "645abd90b5e7e50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "cases, preliminary checks have shown no reason for concern, but our information is as yet not complete. In two of those cases, inconsistent data need to be reconciled. Further action on all 13 cases will be considered in conjunction with the police on a case-by-case basis. I am sure that the House will want me to thank the police for their work in following up individuals as part of this exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "645abd90b5e7e50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "ther it would be possible more closely to align the sex offenders register and List 99. I have decided that we need to go further than that. After extensive consideration, I have decided the most effective approach is to bar from working with children all those who are now convicted or cautioned for any sexual offence against a child, whether the individual is on the sex offenders register or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "645abd90b5e7e50f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "y organisations. That does not seem to fit. As we know, things change, and an assurance in the Bill would be a welcome guarantee for those involved. Amendment No. 5 deals with a related issue—involving the voluntary sector in consultation. As was mentioned in Committee, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is not usually judged to have a good record on consulting the voluntary sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.941.3", "colnum": "941", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "Once again—this has been rehearsed a few times—hindsight gives us the benefit of 20:20 vision. I do not remember anybody from any part of the House being anything other than congratulatory when the Phoenix company stepped in to rescue volume production at Longbridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.941.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Safeguarding Children", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "cases, preliminary checks have shown no reason for concern, but our information is as yet not complete. In two of those cases, inconsistent data need to be reconciled. Further action on all 13 cases will be considered in conjunction with the police on a case-by-case basis. I am sure that the House will want me to thank the police for their work in following up individuals as part of this exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Safeguarding Children", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "ther it would be possible more closely to align the sex offenders register and List 99. I have decided that we need to go further than that. After extensive consideration, I have decided the most effective approach is to bar from working with children all those who are now convicted or cautioned for any sexual offence against a child, whether the individual is on the sex offenders register or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.977.6", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Safeguarding Children", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State for a master-class in bolting the stable door. As a mother, I am angry to find that, since 1997, my three children have been at risk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.977.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Regulation of Cannabis", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": " 2000, he said that \"the most likely impact of a relaxation in the law in any of these areas would be to increase consumption of those drugs\". He denies that today, but I think that he was right first time round. I will explain why shortly. He also said: \"If we send any signal whatsoever which suggests that taking drugs is an acceptable way of proceeding I think we'll see consumption go up\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.984.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Regulation of Cannabis", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Indeed, my hon. Friend features on the Division list, having voted as he did. Strangely, the nine Members became eight at that stage. My hon. Friend and another colleague voted for legalisation; everyone else voted against it. However, the Leader of the Opposition was absent for the vote on legalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.988.2", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Regulation of Cannabis", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I welcome elements of what the hon. Gentleman said. He is right to say that the education campaign—I welcome his support for it—must be founded on a hard-hearted and evidential approach based on, for example, the mental health implications, rather than an hysterical approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.988.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1005.2", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "ng distributing bodies and the Secretary of State to have regard to the principle when exercising their relevant functions under the Bill. We contend that the Government have betrayed the lottery's founding principles by using lottery money for spending that should have come from taxes. Only this morning, as the hon. Member for Bath pointed out, the right-of-centre Centre for Policy Studies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1005.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1007.0", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make a small contribution to the debate. It is always nice to speak to a packed House. I am sure that hon. Members are waiting with bated breath for my words of wisdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1007.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": " Committee. Strictly speaking, additionality is a matter between the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Treasury. If my Department were ever to seek to replace its funding with lottery funding, the Treasury would rightly reduce our funding by the same amount. Additionality will never be constant, so we cannot define what Governments usually provide. The Government provide money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jo Swinson", "preceding_text": "y organisations. That does not seem to fit. As we know, things change, and an assurance in the Bill would be a welcome guarantee for those involved. Amendment No. 5 deals with a related issue—involving the voluntary sector in consultation. As was mentioned in Committee, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is not usually judged to have a good record on consulting the voluntary sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1049.4", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Field", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Field", "preceding_text": "ive years to 2004. We remain doubtful of the Government's wisdom in inserting clause 19 to widen the definition of charitable expenditure. We hope that a full debate will take place on the matter before the Bill goes to another place. Where does the national lottery go from here? I have a small confession to make. I am one of the small minority of people who have never played the national lottery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1049.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "t they bring in out to good causes as quickly as possible and that we keep the balances as low as possible. Nobody disagrees with the Minister about that. However, it does not deal with the point that my hon. Friend the Member for East Dunbartonshire and I put to him: either there is something in the Bill that will allow money to be taken from heritage or there is not. He cannot have it both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-19", "file": "debates2006-01-19b.xml", "sha256": "26d4f2ab93aa0a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1054.2", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Lottery Bill", "cue_speaker": "Don Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Foster", "preceding_text": "rees with the Minister about that. However, it does not deal with the point that my hon. Friend the Member for East Dunbartonshire and I put to him: either there is something in the Bill that will allow money to be taken from heritage or there is not. He cannot have it both ways. [Interruption.] The reality is that the mechanism that he just described means that the money will be taken away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-19b.1054.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-20", "file": "debates2006-01-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1258195cbe059a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-20b.1083.3", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Development (Reporting and Transparency) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Angela Browning", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Browning", "preceding_text": "e is one of the most important private Member's Bills to be introduced in recent years. I hope that it gets on to the statute book. Hon. Members keep referring to last night. For those who were not present, a meeting took place with many people, from outside as well as inside the House. It is probably the only occasion on which I will pray in aid the words of the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-20b.1083.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-01-20", "file": "debates2006-01-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1258195cbe059a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-20b.1138.8", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "REGISTRATION SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. To be read a Second time on Friday 3 March .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-20b.1138.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Just to correct my hon. Friend, the Prime Minister said that it was likely that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "First, I realise that the hon. Gentleman was not his party's defence spokesman at the time that its manifesto was written, but for a party that says that it is unequivocally committed to the nuclear deterrent not to have mentioned it in one sentence in its manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1165.3", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me answer and perhaps the hon. Gentleman will not need to come in on a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1165.3", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Let me answer and perhaps the hon. Gentleman will not need to come in on a point of order. [Interruption.] Order. There is no need to give notice of a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1165.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1169.3", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Mundell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"For Wales!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Mundell", "preceding_text": "I was disappointed not to be able to contribute to the debate on 9 January . I know well, from reading early-day motion 1421, that Welsh Members take an active interest in the deliberations of the Scottish Parliament, and this is reciprocated by Scottish Members in respect of the National Assembly of Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1169.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "ily of all, he alleged that Tory amendments to the Bill would involve not only a referendum first but the clearing of a long list of hurdles. The Secretary of State has been in this House longer than I have and he can read the amendments that we have tabled. May I gently point out to him that some of them adopt the alternative position? That seems not to have dawned on him in considering the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "ay? We are supposed to be scrutinising and probing and putting proposals to the Government that might indeed commend themselves to him. Yet all he does is to lump our amendments together, put out a propaganda statement that is worthy of South Africa's apartheid regime in terms of trying to blacken one's opponents, and tell the Committee that this is a wrecking procedure. It is nothing of the kind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "r in Council. The Secretary of State seems not to understand that that is an assertion of Executive authority, not legislative authority. I fear that he has put together this proposal because he knows that he cannot satisfy either half of his party on the question of whether to proceed with the transfer of primary legislative functions and nor does he have a clue whether he would win a referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I call Mr. Paul Murphy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. There is no doubt that if the people of Wales think that they are getting one thing when they are, in fact, getting another, it would be incorrect not to consult them or give them the opportunity to have a say on that specific matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "was not possible to put it in a referendum. For him to claim that it was not so complicated when it came to a general election is fatuous. He knows perfectly well that in a general election people vote on a range of matters. I do not accept that that grants any kind of mandate for change in a referendum matter. The hon. Gentleman ought to have been present to note the care with which I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-23", "file": "debates2006-01-23b.xml", "sha256": "9a319de1fe7c94fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1246.2", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "I must come clean about that. When I discussed the new schedule, I intended to enter a mea culpa on that point. I was responsible for part of the new schedule, but not for all of it—especially the mistakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-23b.1246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-24", "file": "debates2006-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "c1b7ae67f92d7a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24a.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ears. We like much of what we have heard today, but he will forgive me if I say that we have heard much of it before. Much of what he has said was trailed in the five-year plan; we were promised this Green Paper before the summer recess. Further back, at the 1997 general election, Labour proclaimed itself the party of welfare reform, but while the Labour Government have done \"sweet nothing\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24a.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-24", "file": "debates2006-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "c1b7ae67f92d7a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "Given that the Minister is unable to give an example, apart from animal health, why not leave it to the Assembly to create its own Standing Orders? Why do we need to tell it what to do? The clause says \"must include\" so and so. It is prescriptive and tells the Assembly what to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-24", "file": "debates2006-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "c1b7ae67f92d7a0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24a.1372.3", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "made by the Father of the House, who paraphrased me and suggested that I had said, \"We can go forward, but we can't go back.\" Actually, that is not far from what I said. More to the point, it is exactly what the leader of his party, the Prime Minister, has said; he said that he had no reverse gear. He has also said that every time that he has initiated a reform, he wishes that he had gone further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24a.1372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-24", "file": "debates2006-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "621dd82c8efdcedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "It is a fact that basic banks accounts with all the major Scottish banks are accessible at post offices in Scotland, so we have gone some way to deal with that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-24", "file": "debates2006-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "621dd82c8efdcedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1308.0", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Welfare Reform Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ears. We like much of what we have heard today, but he will forgive me if I say that we have heard much of it before. Much of what he has said was trailed in the five-year plan; we were promised this Green Paper before the summer recess. Further back, at the 1997 general election, Labour proclaimed itself the party of welfare reform, but while the Labour Government have done \"sweet nothing\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-24", "file": "debates2006-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "621dd82c8efdcedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1311.0", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Welfare Reform Green Paper", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "May I start by welcoming the hon. Gentleman's commitment to work with the Government to bring about these important reforms? I welcome his support and his recognition that incapacity benefit has failed millions of people. Most Labour Members would probably prefer the Conservatives to have done something about it when they had 18 years in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-24", "file": "debates2006-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "621dd82c8efdcedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "Given that the Minister is unable to give an example, apart from animal health, why not leave it to the Assembly to create its own standing orders? Why do we need to tell it what to do? The clause says \"must include\" so and so. It is prescriptive and tells the Assembly what to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-24", "file": "debates2006-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "621dd82c8efdcedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1362.4", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Jones", "preceding_text": "I note that the word \"effect\" is used in clause 100(1)(a) and (c), while the word \"impact\" is used in paragraph (b). Will the Minister please explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-24", "file": "debates2006-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "621dd82c8efdcedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1372.3", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "made by the Father of the House, who paraphrased me and suggested that I had said, \"We can go forward, but we can't go back.\" Actually, that is not far from what I said. More to the point, it is exactly what the leader of his party, the Prime Minister, has said; he said that he had no reverse gear. He has also said that every time that he has initiated a reform, he wishes that he had gone further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-24", "file": "debates2006-01-24b.xml", "sha256": "621dd82c8efdcedf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1373.1", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "I feel that I am almost negotiating with the Conservatives on this issue. If the hon. Gentleman is saying that he is so moved by my argument that he accepts the case for a structured revisiting of the referendum process on a limited time scale, that is progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-24b.1373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "2797902306c112e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "re wrong to have a patient's passport that took people off . . . \" On foundation hospitals, in May 2003, he said: \"This week the Labour Government . . . brought forward their plans for Foundation Hospitals . . . the Conservative party voted against them—a decision I wholeheartedly supported.\" In November 2005, he said: \"It was a mistake frankly to oppose foundation hospitals\". Shall I go on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "2797902306c112e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25a.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is precisely what we are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "2797902306c112e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25a.1429.5", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "s to raise standards in the hon. Gentleman's constituency and elsewhere, but I am sure he will accept that one of the benefits of this Government is the massive investment in education. That has meant, for example, that in an area such as his, the number of 11-year-olds passing their exams has increased dramatically over the past few years; the number of 16-year-olds getting five good GCSEs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25a.1429.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "2797902306c112e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25a.1433.2", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "n precisely what did happen, since I think that that will be at least partly the concern of the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) . Conscious of next week's landmark London conference on Afghanistan, and the interest in the subject which has gone on for some considerable time and was reflected on Monday at Question Time, the Ministry of Defence offered an article under my signature to The Sun .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25a.1433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "71dace401c976bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "re wrong to have a patient's passport that took people off . . . \" On foundation hospitals, in May 2003, he said: \"This week the Labour Government . . . brought forward their plans for Foundation Hospitals . . . the Conservative party voted against them—a decision I wholeheartedly supported.\" In November 2005, he said: \"It was a mistake frankly to oppose foundation hospitals\". Shall I go on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "71dace401c976bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1425.5", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "On police force amalgamation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1425.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "71dace401c976bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It is not a question of forcing them through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "71dace401c976bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is precisely what we are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "71dace401c976bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I would welcome a degree of consensus, yes, but unfortunately the Conservatives have made it clear yet again that they are opposed to the climate change levy. I think that that is their position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "71dace401c976bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1429.5", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "raise standards in the hon. Gentleman's constituency and elsewhere, but I am sure that he will accept that one of the benefits of this Government is the massive investment in education. That has meant, for example, that in an area such as his, the number of 11-year-olds passing their exams has increased dramatically over the past few years; the number of 16-year-olds getting five good GCSEs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1429.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "71dace401c976bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1431.0", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Lazarowicz", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend will be aware, my private Member's Bill on climate change begins its Committee stage this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "71dace401c976bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1433.2", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Troop Deployment (Afghanistan)", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "lain precisely what did happen, as I think that that will be at least partly the concern of the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) . Conscious of next week's landmark London conference on Afghanistan, and the interest in the subject which has gone on for some considerable time and was reflected on Monday at Question Time, the Ministry of Defence offered an article under my signature to The Sun .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-25", "file": "debates2006-01-25b.xml", "sha256": "71dace401c976bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1471.3", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Merchant Shipping (Pollution) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": "US$1 billion mark was far more than we thought would be necessary. Subsequently we found that even that was too little, but that is the sum available. After we get all the parties signed up, we need to address that issue. I do not want to mislead the hon. Gentleman. He noted in his comments that the level of funding seems to have changed by a few million pounds since the debate in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-25b.1471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-26", "file": "debates2006-01-26b.xml", "sha256": "22c50c31d031ad5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26b.1513.3", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Last week I asked the Leader of the House for an early statement on troop deployments in Afghanistan. That statement of course will be made today, and I should like to thank the Leader of the House for the alacrity with which he responded to my request. Dare I say it, this could be the start of a beautiful relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26b.1513.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-26", "file": "debates2006-01-26c.xml", "sha256": "14baa99d685d75b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1495.4", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "ook pit enterprise is nearly completed—2,000 jobs in that area alone. There will be another 5,000 at the Markham and Bolsover industrial site, when the new motorway intersection, which I have championed for the past five years, starts at Easter. We have got unemployment down to half of what it was when the Tories carried out their brutality of closing the pits. Everything is on stream—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1495.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-26", "file": "debates2006-01-26c.xml", "sha256": "14baa99d685d75b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1510.5", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call Mark Hoban.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1510.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-26", "file": "debates2006-01-26c.xml", "sha256": "14baa99d685d75b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1513.3", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Last week I asked the Leader of the House for an early statement on troop deployments in Afghanistan. That statement of course will be made today, and I should like to thank the Leader of the House for the alacrity with which he responded to my request. Dare I say it, this could be the start of a beautiful relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-26", "file": "debates2006-01-26c.xml", "sha256": "14baa99d685d75b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "tion of only a few weeks ago—whatever. Such a debate would be a good expedition so that we could discover people's thoughts before the publication of the education Bill. Lastly, may we have a debate on the Arbuthnot report? Many see it as a missed opportunity, but it is nevertheless of great importance to many Scottish Members. It would be useful if the House had the early opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-26", "file": "debates2006-01-26c.xml", "sha256": "14baa99d685d75b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1517.2", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "card? I was involved in this at meetings with Ministers, on a constituency basis and in working with the all-party group. At no stage was it ever mentioned that the card, despite all the Government's attempts to bully people into direct payments, once established, would not be permanent. Driving down on Sunday, I heard some form of ministerial pond life suggesting that the card was only temporary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-26", "file": "debates2006-01-26c.xml", "sha256": "14baa99d685d75b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1523.3", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "sue the data. I want to know from the Department—I hope that the Leader of the House will arrange for a statement accordingly—how that fundamental error occurred and what it has cost the taxpayer. I also want to elicit an apology to all the teachers and students whose efforts and achievements were disregarded by the Government, and, if I may, the definition according to a simple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-26", "file": "debates2006-01-26c.xml", "sha256": "14baa99d685d75b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1544.4", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Afghanistan", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "tre. That deployment, along with the other assets that I mentioned, is assessed as appropriate and sufficient, subject always to the findings of the preliminary operations team, which we are sending out in order to gain further information and intelligence about the situation on the ground. As that develops—if there is any change in the configuration—I will speak to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-26", "file": "debates2006-01-26c.xml", "sha256": "14baa99d685d75b5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1592.1", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Public Accounts", "cue_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "e public services. I want to outline this afternoon the key findings emanating from the Committee's reports over the past 10 years—findings that are present in the Committee's work since my last address and which lie at the heart of current policy discourse on achieving value for money in the delivery of public services. Indeed, as the parties come closer and closer together on policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-26c.1592.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.7.6", "colnum": "7", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. The hon. Gentleman's first question was about independence. At the time of the Report stage and Third Reading of the National Lottery Bill, which is now in another place, we spoke to all the lottery distributors. They have agreed to show in their annual reports how they have delivered additionality. That information will be made available in both Houses of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.7.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND GRAND COMMITTEE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " Committee (questions for oral answer)) , and shall then consider the instrument referred to it under paragraph (1) above; and (b) at the conclusion of those proceedings, a motion for the adjournment of the Committee may be made by a Minister of the Crown, pursuant to paragraph (5) of Standing Order No. 116 (Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings)) .— [Kevin Brennan.] Question agreed to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.43.5", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Murphy", "preceding_text": "Those Members did not receive such postbags because only one of them was elected to the Assembly under the first-past-the-post system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.43.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.87.7", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " from the Wales Office. I can only conclude that this is not a measure that has been demanded by the people of Wales, but one designed to suit the interests of the Labour party. Significantly, this is being proposed when Labour has no regional AMs. There was no such proposal made before the 2003 Assembly elections, when Labour had one regional AM and no complaint about the system was heard at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.87.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " for those Members who are interested, states: \"Referred to in Wales as the 'Clwyd West' question, this might in Scotland be called the 'Cunninghame South' question\". Wales was therefore at the forefront of the minds of members of the Arbuthnott commission. It also refers to Wales in paragraph 4.58, noting specifically that these proposals would affect the quality of candidates. I agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "No, I will make some progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.93.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.93.6", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is a matter of principle.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Devine", "preceding_text": "May I point out that it is Scottish Labour party policy for candidates not to stand in a constituency at the next election, but to stand in a list?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.93.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "enough, and am nearing the end of my speech. I feel that some of the interventions have been less than helpful, and indeed rather frivolous. This is an important matter. I can tell from the laughter on the Labour Benches that the hon. Gentleman thinks that it is a joke, but it is not. We are talking about a serious piece of gerrymandering on the part of his party, which the Committee must discuss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.100.8", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "It is entirely dishonourable for someone to use public funds to send out leaflets and press releases claiming to be the Assembly Member based in the Rhondda and trying thereby to deceive the people of the Rhondda into believing that they were elected for that constituency. I simply believe that is wrong. Furthermore, that is an act of fraud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.100.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.100.8", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "shonourable for someone to use public funds to send out leaflets and press releases claiming to be the Assembly Member based in the Rhondda and trying thereby to deceive the people of the Rhondda into believing that they were elected for that constituency. I simply believe that is wrong. Furthermore, that is an act of fraud— [Interruption.] Fraudulent and fraud come from the same base—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.100.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.101.6", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "Absolutely. I think the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy (Mr. Llwyd) wanted to intervene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.101.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.108.3", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "cs as a whole. Indeed, if the Government were more persuaded of the case in principle they would be acting on a legislative basis in Scotland, and it is obvious that they have no intention of doing that. We have had a useful debate so far, and I look forward to hearing what the Minister has to say, but I counsel him to realise that not all of us are trying to score points off the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "the Labour party. It has been suggested that it is an electoral plot, a means of gerrymandering, or an underhand method to pervert the democratic system. It is nothing of the sort. We have all heard those accusations, but we have not heard a single concrete example of the way in which that gerrymandering will be carried out. No one has demonstrated that, and no one can do so. It is possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.110.5", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "standing country, and we should not be dictated to by what happens north of the border. The electoral systems in Wales and Scotland are profoundly different, because a larger proportion of Members of the Scottish Parliament are elected by the additional Member system—in Scotland, the percentage is 42 per cent.; in Wales, it is 33 per cent.—so we cannot use easy or simplistic parallels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.110.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "The system to which Labour Members are thinking of changing will continue to guarantee seats for the opposition parties. One problem is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "Perhaps even the Secretary of State would privately accept that the sight of a majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.118.4", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "it, conker-pickling—on the Secretary of State's part, claiming that it is to everyone's advantage and has absolutely nothing to do with the poor, pathetic stories of the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) about Members opening offices in his constituency and pretending to be politicians. The poor, sensitive flower among Welsh Labour Members! Ah, I see that the tender flower has returned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.118.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "r democracy of a party that believes that it can legislate to put unfair restrictions on the candidates of other parties, just in case they inconveniently open up a political office in one or other constituency. Has the abstinence from dual candidacy been the normal practice of the Labour party across these islands? I have been looking at the Labour list for the Glasgow constituency in 1999—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "Well, why on earth did the late Donald Dewar put himself at the top of the Glasgow list?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.121.3", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "Well, why on earth did the late Donald Dewar put himself at the top of the Glasgow list? [Interruption.] Why on earth is the Labour party trying to change the situation now, especially—as we have heard—among the casualties would be the Minister for Education and Young People, Peter Peacock, who came third in the constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-30", "file": "debates2006-01-30c.xml", "sha256": "f20eb79c8b3f0054", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.121.4", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [3rd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Michael. This is an amendment to the Government of Wales Bill and it has nothing to do with Scotland. I ask you to rule on that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-30c.121.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Prospects for the EU in 2006", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": ", and another report was made yesterday to the General Affairs Council, which the Foreign Secretary and I attended. A further ministerial discussion took place at the margins of the Davos conference, which took place in Switzerland this weekend. So I can assure the hon. Gentleman that a great deal of discussion is taking place at all levels of government, and not just with the European Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Prospects for the EU in 2006", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "ather than the Commission. The suggestion in many British newspapers that there is a devilish plot by the European Commission against the great British pint is simply untrue. There is no recommendation that we should see the end of, for example, the pint of beer or the pint of milk. On the other hand, the Commission is responsible for ensuring that there can be common measures across the EU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.193.5", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "and as the current chairman of an all-party inquiry into anti-Semitism, may I point out that the key provision for working journalists is proposed section 29K? It says that someone is not guilty of an offence if their action \"consists of criticising, expressing antipathy towards, abusing, insulting or ridiculing (or seeking to ridicule) any religion, religious belief or religious practice\".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.193.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.193.6", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. A number of hon. Members on both sides of the House were shouting \"unless\" as he read the provision. They were referring to the end of the provision, which says \"unless he intends . . . to stir up religious hatred\".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.193.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.196.6", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "He was giving his own honest view, based on his religious belief. He would certainly not have committed an offence in the context in which he said it and the manner in which he said it, because his intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.196.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.199.5", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "The straightforward answer is that, if there was an intention to stir up hatred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.199.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.203.7", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "No, this offence would not be relevant to the particular instance that the hon. Gentleman cites. The Jerry Springer example would not be covered by the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.203.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Like the Liberal Democrats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Lewis", "preceding_text": "ely to create? If a group of people following a particular form of undesirable activity set themselves up as a cult or religion, could they not use the Bill to claim protection from criticism? It is gradually dawning on moderate Muslims just how restrictive the Bill could be. For instance, a group or people with bizarre sexual preferences might say that those practices were part of their religion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": " Deputy Speaker, but it actually happened. Then, there was the much more serious example involving Lynette Burrowes, who is a respected children's writer. She expressed the view that she had reservations about the adoption of children by same-sex couples. That same view was freely expressed by Members in this House, and without any danger of police proceedings, when we debated the law in question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. In the light of the House's decisions this evening, I think it appropriate to inform the House—if that is acceptable to you—of how we see the position at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Racial and Religious Hatred Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": " not include insulting and abusive behaviour; it will concern intent only, not recklessness; and it will deal with a wide-ranging freedom of expression clause. Despite this evening's defeat for the Government, I am delighted that we are introducing legislation to deal with the issues that we must address. There have been substantial arguments in both the House of Commons and the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.244.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-01-31", "file": "debates2006-01-31b.xml", "sha256": "23ee0c61593adb3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "Treasury Select Committee on 15 or 16 December , the Chancellor clearly suggested that that was not the case and that it was not set in stone. He said there was merely a framework in place and that negotiations are still to be conducted. There is therefore a chink of light, and we need to understand what the Government's position is. Everyone needs to understand their position on this vital issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-01-31b.254.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-01", "file": "debates2006-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "66dee88939058077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01a.300.2", "colnum": "300", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "I support the Government's policy on the regeneration of the Thames Gateway and the need for infrastructure investment. However—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-01", "file": "debates2006-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "66dee88939058077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01a.312.5", "colnum": "312", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not agree. The Research Councils UK takes those decisions. The key thing for us if we are to meet our Kyoto targets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01a.312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-01", "file": "debates2006-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "66dee88939058077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "ficial Report , 11 January 2006; Vol. 441, c. 691W .] If we are to have a debate about housing and about balancing development and preserving the character of our towns, we should at least do so on the basis of clarity, honesty and knowing whether we are getting rid of industrial sites or gardens. That is not happening at the moment. This Bill seems to have struck a chord right across the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-01", "file": "debates2006-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "66dee88939058077", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is one of the dimmer ones!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Not for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01a.327.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-01", "file": "debates2006-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "e0069329939bdf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01b.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady may know that difficulties of interpretation sometimes arise in discussions about compensation through the Bellwin scheme and that they are often not settled. We will continue with the negotiations. My hon. Friend the Minister for Local Government has visited two or three times. In Cornwall, where floods occurred, and in Carlisle, which I visited last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01b.304.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-01", "file": "debates2006-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "e0069329939bdf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01b.387.1", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Government's 10-year Transport Plan", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "I want to make a bit more progress. The Deputy Prime Minister said: \"Now we have a 10 Year Plan that will deliver the scale of resources required to put integrated transport into practice. It will also deliver radical improvements for passengers, motorists, business\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01b.387.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-01", "file": "debates2006-02-01b.xml", "sha256": "e0069329939bdf80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01b.395.5", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Government's 10-year Transport Plan", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " Conservative party suddenly acquired environmental credentials. The House will recall that the early 1990s saw one of the deepest recessions of the past century. [Interruption.] The right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) has mentioned the exchange rate mechanism, which I can see is a fond memory. He will also remember who was special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-01b.395.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9aa0b1e1aba61234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02a.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Lord Carlile would be appropriate. Whether his remarks amount to a gentle comment or a rebuke, the very cordial and consensual relations that I have had with the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden in discussing some of these matters have not always been evident in debates in the House. I blame my own conduct for that, of course, but he may care to look at his own approach in that regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02a.482.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9aa0b1e1aba61234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "end the Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood) ? What safeguards has the MOD put in place to prevent asset-stripping? Are Ministers comfortable that they have engineered an incentive scheme correctly given that a few employees of the company stand to make small fortunes that make lottery winners look like village paupers? I have to confess that some of them are very good friends of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9aa0b1e1aba61234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "Are Ministers comfortable that they have engineered an incentive scheme correctly given that a few employees of the company stand to make small fortunes that make lottery winners look like village paupers? I have to confess that some of them are very good friends of mine— [Interruption.] Well, I am looking forward to a very large dinner from Sir John Chisholm, and I have already told him so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9aa0b1e1aba61234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Smith", "preceding_text": "es. I know that this might be unpopular in the Chamber, but I feel that I should relay my fear to the rest of the House about the danger of encouraging one sole monopoly supplier. That is the inherent risk in the strategy. It could be argued that the defence industrial strategy was written by BAE Systems for BAE Systems. I am not here to knock BAE Systems. I think that it is a great country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "9aa0b1e1aba61234", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02a.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "r in a genuine spirit of inquiry what we are doing to build relationships with emerging nations like India. India will soon be the largest country in the world. By 2030 it will be the third richest nation in the world. Surely we should now work on our special relationship with India in terms of our defence capability. I would be fascinated to hear from the Minister what we are doing on that basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02a.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.451.2", "colnum": "451", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "hich, as I just explained, we benefit as exporters. They are also constrained by EU rules, but I guess that my hon. Friend may be pleased to hear that the recent outbreaks of foot and mouth disease in Brazil have caused British imports of Brazilian beef to fall in the past few months. The lifting of our over-30-months scheme means that beef produced in this country that is over 30 years old—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.451.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "Again, I shall not get into the substance of that debate now. I am not aware of any Labour bash taking place on Wednesday evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism Act", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "Lord Carlile would be appropriate. Whether his remarks amount to a gentle comment or a rebuke, the very cordial and consensual relations that I have had with the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden in discussing some of these matters have not always been evident in debates in the House. I blame my own conduct for that, of course, but he may care to look at his own approach in that regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.502.0", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "The Minister has glossed over one of the most important aspects of the procurement debate, which we should discuss—the F35. Has he had any discussions with Henry Hyde, the Congressman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.502.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.503.2", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Hendrick", "preceding_text": "How confident is my right hon. Friend that a stronger version of the JSF will be developed? If that version is not developed, is a carrier version of the Eurofighter being considered?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "rcraft of its type, for various technical reasons. The question of marinising Typhoon has been mooted. People are talking about it, but we are not planning that. There are technical issues concerning the stress on such an aircraft landing in the way that it would land. There are major technical issues involved, so hon. Members should not just read the headline and think there is a simple solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "end the Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood) ? What safeguards has the MOD put in place to prevent asset-stripping? Are Ministers comfortable that they have engineered an incentive scheme correctly given that a few employees of the company stand to make small fortunes that make lottery winners look like village paupers? I have to confess that some of them are very good friends of mine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "Are Ministers comfortable that they have engineered an incentive scheme correctly given that a few employees of the company stand to make small fortunes that make lottery winners look like village paupers? I have to confess that some of them are very good friends of mine— [Interruption.] Well, I am looking forward to a very large dinner from Sir John Chisholm, and I have already told him so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "We collaborated with the French on several projects throughout our time in government. There is certainly no reason why we should not share our design experience with the French. However, I know from talking to very senior people in the Royal Navy that they are absolutely petrified that the involvement of the French may delay this programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "As ever, my hon. Friend is absolutely right. Indeed, I had a meeting with John Bolton last year, and he explicitly stated that the United States would view the lifting of the EU arms embargo on China as little short of a declaration of war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.517.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "John Smith", "preceding_text": "es. I know that this might be unpopular in the Chamber, but I feel that I should relay my fear to the rest of the House about the danger of encouraging one sole monopoly supplier. That is the inherent risk in the strategy. It could be argued that the defence industrial strategy was written by BAE Systems for BAE Systems. I am not here to knock BAE Systems. I think that it is a great country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-02", "file": "debates2006-02-02b.xml", "sha256": "a1fb9b7874923bbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Defence Procurement", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "n a genuine spirit of inquiry what we are doing to build relationships with emerging nations such as India. India will soon be the largest country in the world. By 2030 it will be the third richest nation in the world. Surely we should now work on our special relationship with India in terms of our defence capability. I would be fascinated to hear from the Minister what we are doing on that basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-02b.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "3218df1f7660041d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Lynne Featherstone", "preceding_text": "s area, I cannot say; clearly, it has not. The real costs will not be adequately funded by the level of grant in the report, and if it is not satisfactory now, it certainly will not be next year. Increasing burdens are imposed by pay inflation, new legislation and Government initiatives, and police authorities are inevitably going to find themselves short of a bob or two; or indeed a bobby or two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "3218df1f7660041d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06a.653.2", "colnum": "653", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": " To make up for that, there is a police sparsity top-up in the formula to add back money. The document is enormously difficult to understand. I doubt that the Minister understands all the details because he would need a degree of mathematics to know how the formulae are determined. I would be interested to find out how they are determined, but they are way beyond my A grade at A-level maths—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06a.653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "3218df1f7660041d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": " that they need to thank him for it. However, councils protest that it is still not enough and charge their MPs to explain the difficulties to the House in January. Then councils fix their budgets, cut some vital services, hike up the council tax and the voters protest; so Ministers cap them. Councils then cut a few more services and we begin the annual dance of the pantomime horse all over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "3218df1f7660041d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " the consultation and recent meetings? The hon. Member for Southend, West said that his council was implementing cuts of £11 million. I wonder why Opposition Members have such short memories. A cut is a reduction in the cash available to spend on services; a cash reduction or a reduction after inflation, if one wants to define it like that. A cut is not a smaller increase than was hoped for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.585.2", "colnum": "585", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "We have a clear understanding with the Post Office about the use of Post Office card accounts. It was always clear from the beginning that the contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.589.6", "colnum": "589", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Ashok Kumar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ashok Kumar", "preceding_text": "The new deal has been very popular in my constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.589.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "I certainly will not scrap the new deal. This Johnny-come-lately support for the voluntary sector is a bit odd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for giving me an opportunity to reiterate that the pathways to work pilot makes considerable use of the voluntary and private sector in providing services for individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.590.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.626.3", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Police Finance", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "ier. It is not as simple as that. The £125 million investment will be made. Existing plans will need to be reshaped to reflect the new structure, which will involve a substantial amount of money. I do not deny the fact that an additional amount will need to be found locally, but that is where the benefits of the investment will be felt due to the greater efficiencies that come through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.653.2", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Police Finance", "cue_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Crispin Blunt", "preceding_text": " To make up for that, there is a police sparsity top-up in the formula to add back money. The document is enormously difficult to understand. I doubt that the Minister understands all the details because he would need a degree of mathematics to know how the formulae are determined. I would be interested to find out how they are determined, but they are way beyond my A grade at A-level maths—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Police Finance", "cue_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Brokenshire", "preceding_text": "ill be drawn away from what are known as the core teams—the main response teams. I am very worried about what that will actually mean, and it is clear from the report that finances are rather constrained. My hon. Friend the Member for Reigate (Mr. Blunt) gave us an interesting and detailed analysis of the figures; indeed, he took a scientific, mathematical and erudite approach to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Police Finance", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goggins", "preceding_text": "ey are on an equal footing with the English authorities. I hope that he welcomes that. I am sorry about the way in which he and others found about these developments. However, last Thursday's Order Paper made it clear that the Home Secretary was going to make an announcement. If a journalist puts two and two together and rings the hon. Gentleman up, that is a matter for the journalist and for him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.664.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "ce from Mr. Steven Pick, who is the chief director of finance in Barnsley. He said: \"Achieving a 5 per cent. tax increase will require a shift in our position—likely to have implications for all services.\" Ted Lush, the corporate director of finance and property services in Stockport, said: \"The budget will be the most difficult ever faced. All areas will have their spending reduced.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": " that they need to thank him for it. However, councils protest that it is still not enough and charge their MPs to explain the difficulties to the House in January. Then councils fix their budgets, cut some vital services, hike up the council tax and the voters protest; so Ministers cap them. Councils then cut a few more services and we begin the annual dance of the pantomime horse all over again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "few words I wish to say may sound a little parochial, but many right hon. and hon. Members across the country will identify with them. The change to a new system of local government finance will have two main effects including, first, a continued shift of resources from constituencies such as mine in the south-east to other regions. Secondly, a system has been created that seeks to disguise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": " is another example showing how resources are shifted surreptitiously from one area to another. It is not a system that is understood by the electorate out there. Secondly, the people of West Berkshire have thankfully taken the only course of action open to them that can mitigate the effects of Government underfunding: they have elected a Conservative administration, which in its first year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Benyon", "preceding_text": "off from the Liberal Democrat Benches. The Liberal Democrats controlled that local authority, and they were happy to see the people of West Berkshire caught in a pincer movement between a Government who fiddled the funding and imposed the Chancellor's savage stealth taxes on them, and a Liberal Democrat authority that ramped up council tax year on year to pay for ridiculous spending and pet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-06", "file": "debates2006-02-06b.xml", "sha256": "e54c909df3c247b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Local Government Finance", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " the consultation and recent meetings? The hon. Member for Southend, West said that his council was implementing cuts of £11 million. I wonder why Opposition Members have such short memories. A cut is a reduction in the cash available to spend on services; a cash reduction or a reduction after inflation, if one wants to define it like that. A cut is not a smaller increase than was hoped for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-06b.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-07", "file": "debates2006-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e7c50c1f6eb6ec49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware that the European Parliament recently awarded its Sakharov prize to the Women in White, a Cuban human rights organisation that has campaigned for the freedom of political prisoners still held captive in that Marxist holdout in the Caribbean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-07", "file": "debates2006-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e7c50c1f6eb6ec49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "t a delegation of those of us who believe in democracy, pluralism and freedom in Latin America? Will he agree that the best thing that the Government could do is to emulate what the Thatcher Government did to Andrei Sakharov and make heroes and examples of those who have struggled for freedom in Cuba, and ensure that pressure is applied to guarantee political prisoners the freedom that they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-07", "file": "debates2006-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e7c50c1f6eb6ec49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.727.6", "colnum": "727", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More, more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "No, but with respect to my hon. Friend, his policies would lead that way. It is not enough to assume that if people eat the right kind of muesli, go to first nights of Harold Pinter revivals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.727.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-07", "file": "debates2006-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e7c50c1f6eb6ec49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Diane Abbott", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware that much of the heroin sold on the streets of Hackney and across the inner cities originates in Afghanistan, with all the terrible social consequences. He will also be aware that, horrific though the Taliban regime was, opium production was almost eliminated under the Taliban.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.729.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-07", "file": "debates2006-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e7c50c1f6eb6ec49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.761.1", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Mental Health Services", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.761.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-07", "file": "debates2006-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e7c50c1f6eb6ec49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.844.6", "colnum": "844", "heading": "NHS Reorganisation", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "Turning to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.844.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-02-07", "file": "debates2006-02-07b.xml", "sha256": "e7c50c1f6eb6ec49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.850.5", "colnum": "850", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 8 February , pursuant to Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-07b.850.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "d35f6ceca56a9e01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08b.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "me Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Snowden. When the extension of the franchise came in 1918, Labour won the votes of many of those who now had a voice. Labour took office for the first time in 1924, and again in 1929. Then, after the long years in opposition of the 1930s, it joined the Churchill coalition in the second world war, before the 1945 election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08b.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08b.xml", "sha256": "d35f6ceca56a9e01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08b.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": " votes of many of those who now had a voice. Labour took office for the first time in 1924, and again in 1929. Then, after the long years in opposition of the 1930s, it joined the Churchill coalition in the second world war, before the 1945 election—[Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"]—brought Labour's great landslide. The 1945 Government became one of the most reforming in British history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08b.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State accept that many people in Northern Ireland feel that he has been dipping into his optimism pills too much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.866.5", "colnum": "866", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am not going to anticipate the debate this afternoon, but I will say that there is an additional point behind the one that my hon. Friend makes: the people of Northern Ireland are fed up with the fact that their politicians are not doing their jobs. People elected to an assembly ought to be in an assembly, up and running, doing their jobs, which is what these discussions are all about achieving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.866.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.871.6", "colnum": "871", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I love it. One minute we have big concessions to win over Back Benchers; the next minute we have no changes at all. Instead of flip-flopping, why cannot the right hon. Gentleman get out and sell the reforms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.871.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "nservative.\" It also says: \"Issues that once divided Conservatives from Liberal Democrats are now issues where we both agree\"— like Iraq. Is that the same man who two weeks ago told The Daily Telegraph : \"I am, and always have been, a Conservative to the core of my being\"? One week ago, he was the heir to new Labour; today he is a Liberal Conservative. No wonder he is against identity cards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.872.4", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I love it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.872.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.872.7", "colnum": "872", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "sh;does he remember those?—and opposition to antisocial behaviour. I hope that in respect of all those, and more, he will reverse the Conservative position, but in particular tell us now how much he regrets voting against the extra investment for schools and hospitals. Once he has completed those U-turns, we will know where he stands—but he will not stand with any credibility anywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.872.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.874.6", "colnum": "874", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hurray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mary Creagh", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be aware that this month is the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the parliamentary Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.874.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Local Government Referendums", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "obs, create 160 construction jobs during its 18-month construction period, and offer 28 new places for undergraduate and postgraduate students at Essex university. It will provide a vast new retail facility for Colchester—350,000 sq ft of retail development—as well as the brand new bus station, enhancement of the heritage area including the Roman wall around St. Botolph's priory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Local Government Referendums", "cue_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": "of the heritage area including the Roman wall around St. Botolph's priory— [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman is muttering that this area is not in my constituency. I remind him that we share the borough of Colchester, and I believe that he has misused his position and these procedures to run a local vendetta into the national arena, against the interests of the people he seeks to represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.881.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "takes 12 billion cigarettes out of the economy every year. Those responsible for that drain on our economy are now going to get more money, not less, because the amount being paid to them is to be increased. We need time thoroughly to discuss this issue and to see where we are going. One hour is to be cut off the debate. Why can we not have the full time and conduct the debate in a reasonable way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "oncerned with the Labour party's 100th anniversary. I understand that a photograph will be taken—but also that the photographer involved has another engagement afterwards that Conservative Members are likely to attend. It would be unfair to use the word \"bash\" about that other event, but it is likely to take up the time of Opposition Members. The photographer will be busy this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ld provide Sinn Fein with a maximum of £84,000 a year, together with a small amount of about £2,000 a year for travelling expenses, from 1 November 2005 . That will be subject to strict controls. Sinn Fein will have to furnish the House accounting officer with a certificate from an independent auditor to the effect that the expenses claimed are within the terms of the resolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.907.5", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I indicated the kinds of things for which the money could be available. I said that it might be used to fund a researcher, or to purchase equipment to support the representative capacity of a political party. However, as the right hon. Lady will realise, this is not one of those issues that can be precisely defined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.907.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman cares to look at the record he will see that Conservative Members voted against the principle of extending allowances to Sinn Fein at that stage, precisely because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "Whatever the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Sir Nicholas Winterton) , I am not going to give any commitment about what will be done when we come to government after the next election. We are debating the Government's proposals and their impact on the House .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I hope that I can help the hon. Gentleman and the House. As to how much money will be available, it is a little over £84,000. It is not, as it were, a case of the House taking a wheelbarrow to give the money to Sinn Fein—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.932.4", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I am in entire agreement with the leader of the Democratic Unionist party. I admire him immensely for his courage and for the leadership that he has given in Northern Ireland, which has made his party the largest in that part of the UK—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.932.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.937.2", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " he consider a point that is at the heart of the distinction between parliamentary and representative activities, about which he is quite properly concerned? Is it permissible for the Leader of the Opposition, for example, to make a speech outside Parliament—he has been doing that quite properly in recent weeks—that was written and drafted by a researcher who was funded by Short money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.937.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.938.2", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "May we return to what will happen as a result of the Government's largesse? There are three Members on the SDLP Bench behind the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.938.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.967.1", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ace of Westminster? The question before the House is whether we want to recognise that progress and encourage the republican movement further down the path of democracy. The transition from conflict to peace was always going to be tortuous—international experience demonstrates that such transitions always are. The House has the opportunity tonight to vote for normalisation of politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Representative Democracy in the UK", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "ears been the voice of the many, not the few. It is fitting that we gather today in the Chamber to debate the achievements of those 100 years, for it is here and in the Lobbies that Labour MPs such as Keir Hardie spoke for, voted for and delivered the agenda of the first manifesto—from universal suffrage, free health care, devolution and national insurance to the national minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Representative Democracy in the UK", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": "me Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Snowden. When the extension of the franchise came in 1918, Labour won the votes of many of those who now had a voice. Labour took office for the first time in 1924, and again in 1929. Then, after the long years in opposition of the 1930s, it joined the Churchill coalition in the second world war, before the 1945 election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-08", "file": "debates2006-02-08c.xml", "sha256": "b11798891db2242d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.977.4", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Representative Democracy in the UK", "cue_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Clwyd", "preceding_text": " votes of many of those who now had a voice. Labour took office for the first time in 1924, and again in 1929. Then, after the long years in opposition of the 1930s, it joined the Churchill coalition in the second world war, before the 1945 election—[Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"]—brought Labour's great landslide. The 1945 Government became one of the most reforming in British history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-08c.977.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-09", "file": "debates2006-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "c82b06f0ccbee668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.989.3", "colnum": "989", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am not sure how we can know that universities are doing that if we do not know what the statistics are. I am an external adviser for the Oxford theology degree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.989.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-09", "file": "debates2006-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "c82b06f0ccbee668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "nce, yet we have no replacement date. Similarly, the Children and Adoption Bill finished in the Lords on 29 November , yet we have no date for the start of its passage through this House. When will those Bills return to the House? It was revealed yesterday that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has been holding talks with councils about scrapping next year's local government elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-09", "file": "debates2006-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "c82b06f0ccbee668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who voted?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "House confirm that no time will be made available for the legislation necessary to scrap the council elections next year, and that next year's council elections will go ahead? Finally, can we have a debate on the public appeal of MPs? I am sure that the Leader of the House will be aware that my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) has been voted one of the world's 100 sexiest men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-09", "file": "debates2006-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "c82b06f0ccbee668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Winnick", "preceding_text": "For reasons that I have never been able to understand, I have never been included in the list of the sexiest MPs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-09", "file": "debates2006-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "c82b06f0ccbee668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Child Support Agency", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": " but the fact is that he does not have a sensible policy to offer. There is a golden rule in this House: it is best not to throw those kinds of stones from a position of total intellectual bankruptcy. His policy is not a sensible one. I am happy to help him out of his predicament: he should help us and work with Sir David Henshaw to achieve a resolution. I do not want to get party political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-09", "file": "debates2006-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "c82b06f0ccbee668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1058.2", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Murphy", "preceding_text": "ged to recover money from insurers where the perpetrator is insolvent. This sensible reform would not be possible under the current RRO power. Some of the restrictions in the new order-making power will not apply to the implementation of Law Commission recommendations, but the same preconditions and rigorous scrutiny process will apply. I turn to the issue of Europe, albeit with some apprehension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1058.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-09", "file": "debates2006-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "c82b06f0ccbee668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "rovisions for bringing European law into force in the United Kingdom. However, there is reference in clause 26 to \"rules\" and \"schemes\" being used to implement provisions, instead of provisions simply being implemented \"by regulations\". What does the Minister have in mind? We should be interested to hear his reply. I do not know whether my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) is here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1064.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-09", "file": "debates2006-02-09b.xml", "sha256": "c82b06f0ccbee668", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1075.1", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Wright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Wright", "preceding_text": " is the case for considering it in the way in which we normally consider such measures. I know that the Government will think about that. The whole area of deregulation and better regulation has a history. I enjoyed being reminded of the background to the deregulation measures of the Major Government. I was reminded of John Major's speech to the Conservative party conference in October 1992—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-09b.1075.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1147.5", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "t their lordships required in respect of the balance between super-affirmative and primary legislation, as is shown in the reports of their debates. An order under the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, however, will not be an Act of Parliament, so the hon. Gentleman is wrong to suggest that anything other than primary legislation could be used as the vehicle, given the wording that we offer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not accept the latter point, although George Orwell—also known as Mr. Blair—is one of my favourite authors, so I am with the hon. Gentleman at that level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1153.6", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether my hon. and learned Friend heard the remarks by Commissioner Frattini on \"The World at One\" today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1153.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1156.2", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I think I understand the point that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Lynne Jones) was making, and she is entirely right to make it. According to the Government's commercial case, a possible 44,000 private operators will have access to the national identity register.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1156.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1156.4", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "aking constantly. The Government will not listen to it unless it is made constantly. It has taken us nine months to get the Government to change from compulsion by stealth to compulsion by direct legislation for 20 per cent. of the population, but we should not forget that there are plenty of other opportunities for the Government to mine in—perhaps I should say to eat into it like a weevil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1156.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1165.1", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I would not put it in such gentle terms. I would simply say that I am delighted that my Front-Bench colleagues have taken the view that they have, and have resolutely stuck by it throughout the Committee stage and subsequently—unlike the Minister, who has come to water extremely slowly and reluctantly. The fact is that this is a political exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1166.6", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "\", to the fact that he was in favour of securing our borders, he made it clear that he meant the EU borders. It is also clear that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his remarks yesterday—and the day before and the day before that, in his jostling for the premiership of this country—may be taking a divergent view of the principles in the Bill. The Home Secretary shakes his head—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1166.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1180.0", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "I shall use the examples that I was discussing. When Pam Warren, the rail safety campaigner, was a thorn in the side of the Government, a special adviser, I think, was known to say, \"Let's look into her political background, her sex life and other such things.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1180.2", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "istened with great interest to the hon. Gentleman's whipped speech. I have had fun before with the Whips' plants on the Government Benches. He is clearly a new addition to that group. I shall give way in a moment. In the run-up to the debate there was an independent report about the cost and technical capability of the proposed systems—an independent report by the London School of Economics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1207.0", "colnum": "1207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "rivate sector expertise at every stage of a major project to consider its readiness and whether the associated risks are adequately addressed. The scheme has been through a series of gateway reviews, and I assure him that that directly builds on experience learned from past failures. Some of the people involved in the process have been involved in other major public and private sector procurement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1214.4", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I was paid to prevent libels, not to read the newspaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1214.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-13", "file": "debates2006-02-13b.xml", "sha256": "d9c3c34f597364db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1237.4", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Linton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Linton", "preceding_text": " arrived at by the people who will make use of the ID system. The combined effect of all the estimates, including those from Departments, is a benefit of up to £1.1 billion. I am sure that hon. Members can work out that the figure of £1.1 billion divided among about 38 million ID card holders is a benefit of £29 a person. So there is a cost of £3 and a benefit of £29.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-13b.1237.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3d4871590b25fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3d4871590b25fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "It has been quite a journey over the past eight months or so. This afternoon's debate has paralleled the discussion of the matter that has gone on in the public domain over that period. Speeches have been made by the hon. Member for Northavon (Steve Webb) , my right hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) , the right hon. Member for New Hampshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3d4871590b25fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "No, but the hon. Gentleman can see me later. We can talk about the regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3d4871590b25fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "of those clubs should be able to decide what happens in their space, but then his amendment seemed to want to tell parents what they should do with their children in those private spaces. That is another demonstration of how the Conservatives are all over the place on this issue. I shall finish by recapping on how the new clause and our amendments will work and the choice they offer Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3d4871590b25fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": " welcomed. However, the task does not end with passing the Bill and introducing restrictions; 95 per cent. of deaths from cancer are among people exposed to smoking in the home. The Bill is not the end of something, but the start of trying to persuade smokers to give up and to give them every possible support. I am pleased that Members on the Opposition Front Benches have moved on the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3d4871590b25fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "to move the Bill's Third Reading. I particularly want to thank the Minister of State, Department of Health, my right hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Jane Kennedy) and the Under-Secretary of State for Health, my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) who have done a superb job in piloting the Bill through Committee and much of the Report stage that we have just had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "3d4871590b25fe71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1379.6", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "nt; and that the free sight test itself is not infringed in years to come. We have spent almost three months on the legislation. In many ways, it has ended up where I suspect many of us thought and said it would, although not necessarily as easily as it should have done. Many parts of the Bill are of a nature that commands consensus across the House. On smoking, many of my colleagues object—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14a.1379.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "t it simply would be neither feasible nor desirable simply to toll motorways if we thought that we would adopt a completely different method of charging for roads a few years later. I have said before that a national road pricing scheme is some years off, but I believe that we can pilot such a scheme regionally in the next five years or so. Simply charging for some roads, but not for others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1277.4", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "e forces outside London because BTP officers tend to be more thinly spread in some areas and other forces need to help. In addition, the BTP is being asked to do an increasing amount of sophisticated work in relation to anti-terrorist activities in London, where it works with the Metropolitan police. The question that we are considering is whether it is best that it should remain as the BTP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1277.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Disabled Children's Assessment and Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Mr. Forth) that the key is new clause 5. I am not encouraging either Member to do this, but they would be advised to vote against the new clause, because if it is carried their amendments fall. Procedurally, that is the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1295.7", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "As I have already indicated, we are working with the Home Office on the precise nature of the limited exemption that should be permitted for prisoners. The regulations on prisons and other matters will come before the House. If the hon. Gentleman takes the view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1295.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am reliably informed that that is what the right hon. Lady would shout, because she has recommended the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1303.4", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "It is open to private clubs to install ventilation equipment. Does my hon. Friend agree that that issue has not been aired yet?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1309.6", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1309.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1335.2", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "e option to go and work elsewhere. We talk about people working in smoky atmospheres, but what about those who work in coal mines or with dangerous chemicals or hazardous waste? Those problems have all been ignored today, and that is because they are difficult to deal with. However, if we were being consistent, we would be considering them as well. I have been asked to keep my remarks brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "It has been quite a journey over the past eight months or so. This afternoon's debate has paralleled the discussion of the matter that has gone on in the public domain over that period. Speeches have been made by the hon. Member for Northavon (Steve Webb) , my right hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) , the right hon. Member for New Hampshire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "No, but the hon. Gentleman can see me later. We can talk about the regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "of those clubs should be able to decide what happens in their space, but then his amendment seemed to want to tell parents what they should do with their children in those private spaces. That is another demonstration of how the Conservatives are all over the place on this issue. I shall finish by recapping on how the new clause and our amendments will work and the choice they offer Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members were shouting, \"Boring\"; I suppose that it is boring to try to save lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": " welcomed. However, the task does not end with passing the Bill and introducing restrictions; 95 per cent. of deaths from cancer are among people exposed to smoking in the home. The Bill is not the end of something, but the start of trying to persuade smokers to give up and to give them every possible support. I am pleased that Members on the Opposition Front Benches have moved on the issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1375.3", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "to move the Bill's Third Reading. I particularly want to thank the Minister of State, Department of Health, my right hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Jane Kennedy) and the Under-Secretary of State for Health, my hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) who have done a superb job in piloting the Bill through Committee and much of the Report stage that we have just had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1377.2", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "hat the Bill was not well handled. It was one of the most astonishingly badly handled Bills in recent years. It should not have been introduced in the form in which it was introduced, it should not have been pursued in that way, and even if it has produced a solution with which Parliament is happy, that was not by virtue of ministerial design. Ministers should therefore not accept congratulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1379.6", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health Bill", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "um extent; and that the free sight test itself is not infringed in years to come. We have spent almost three months on the Bill. In many ways, it has ended up where I suspect many of us thought and said it would, although not necessarily as easily as it should have done. Many parts of the Bill are of a nature that commands consensus across the House. On smoking, many of my colleagues object—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1379.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-02-14", "file": "debates2006-02-14b.xml", "sha256": "167d56d708c42b22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1392.7", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. Division deferred till Wednesday 15 February , pursuant to Standing Order No. 41A (Deferred divisions) .", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-14b.1392.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-15", "file": "debates2006-02-15b.xml", "sha256": "343c8d01f3007d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I have discussed that very matter with the chief constable of North Wales and it is not clear that that would be the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1406.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-02-15", "file": "debates2006-02-15b.xml", "sha256": "343c8d01f3007d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1406.4", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Flynn", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the majority of the people of Wales have rejected that incoherent, uncosted shotgun wedding? When someone suggests that opposing it means that we increase the risk of terrorism in Wales, is that not just cheap, vacuous, desperate scaremongering?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-15", "file": "debates2006-02-15b.xml", "sha256": "343c8d01f3007d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1410.2", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Roger Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Williams", "preceding_text": "The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Welsh Assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-15", "file": "debates2006-02-15b.xml", "sha256": "343c8d01f3007d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1423.3", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "ithstanding what it says in \"Erskine May\", and when I discovered that on Monday—the day before I received my answer—a journalist from the local Essex Chronicle had telephoned the Department of Health's press department, and asked exactly the same question. The answer was e-mailed to him on Monday afternoon, but I did not get a reply from the Minister to the same question until Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1423.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-02-15", "file": "debates2006-02-15b.xml", "sha256": "343c8d01f3007d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1423.5", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "e been given to a journalist before it was given to an hon. Member. The journalists in the House of Commons Press Gallery are looked after very well. They are given a great deal of information and have access to debates, the Order Paper and to statements, but they do not have rights before an hon. Member. That should be respected by Ministers and their Departments. I shall investigate this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-15", "file": "debates2006-02-15b.xml", "sha256": "343c8d01f3007d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman acknowledges that the amendment for which he wishes to vote is entirely deficient in an important way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-15", "file": "debates2006-02-15b.xml", "sha256": "343c8d01f3007d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1436.6", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "You could not have made the position clearer, Mr. Speaker. That exchange was extremely helpful, because the hon. Member for Beaconsfield admitted that the Lords amendment was deficient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1436.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-15", "file": "debates2006-02-15b.xml", "sha256": "343c8d01f3007d66", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "ating pious aspirations into sensible law is the job of the House. It is not the job of the House to take every such pious aspiration and repeat it verbatim. The decision to repeat it verbatim was the Prime Minister's when he concluded that there was political mileage in doing so. He kept it up even after I think the Home Secretary pointed out to him that the original idea was entirely unworkable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-15b.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "21b8aa40a02a60d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16a.1600.6", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "credit or 12-page forms to get their council tax benefit. When I attended the Hornsea pensioners annual Christmas lunch, I sat beside an upstanding, hard-working, socially contributing and economically successful member of the community who, in his old age, has, because of the Government's £5 billion raid on pensions, ended up in need of means-tested benefits in order to live properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16a.1600.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "21b8aa40a02a60d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "The work on health trainers was developed by talking to those on the ground about how we can engage people who are not presenting themselves to services in the traditional way. We have asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "21b8aa40a02a60d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "ainers was developed by talking to those on the ground about how we can engage people who are not presenting themselves to services in the traditional way. We have asked— [Interruption.] I shall finish my sentence, if the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire will allow me. We have asked different areas of the country to provide information on such services, and we will evaluate their impact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "21b8aa40a02a60d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16a.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "oup, which will examine how the initiatives will work. This is not about adding more checks—there are already opportunities for different checks—or adopting a one-size-fits-all approach; nor is it not just about sickness: it is about health and finding a practical, non-burdensome way of engaging with people at different points in their life and getting them to think about their health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Member for North Tyneside (Mr. Byers) in the sale of Rover, which unfortunately sealed its fate, it now turns out that the sale of the Longbridge plant to Nanjing was somewhat botched. There is, however, some potentially good news: there is a serious prospect of moving the plant from Longbridge to Coventry so that car production can resume. What can the Minister tell the House about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1555.6", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh no it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Minister recognises that my right hon. Friend the Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) will now discover that looking after a new baby is even more difficult than leading the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1555.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1559.2", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "The business for the week following the recess will be as follows: Monday 27 February —Progress on remaining stages of the Government of Wales Bill. Tuesday 28 February —Conclusion of remaining stages of the Government of Wales Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1559.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh no.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend represents a former coal-mining constituency, he will know of the great progress that has been made on compensation payments to former miners. However, the issue of surface workers has yet to be satisfactorily resolved, so may we have a debate on that important matter? As my right hon. Friend is in such a good mood, will he consider giving an extra day to the Government of Wales Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1586.2", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady looks at Hansard tomorrow, she will see that I referred to \"mass means-testing\". Of course, any welfare system will require an element of means-testing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1586.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "guously that the Conservatives, now and when in government, believe in active intervention to get people who can work and who want to work back into work. The principle of the new deal, and of a Government backing welfare-to-work policies, is not in doubt, and I hope that Labour Members will be mature enough to accept that we are all on the same page in wanting to help people back into work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1600.6", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "credit or 12-page forms to get their council tax benefit. When I attended the Hornsea pensioners annual Christmas lunch, I sat beside an upstanding, hard-working, socially contributing and economically successful member of the community who, in his old age, has, because of the Government's £5 billion raid on pensions, ended up in need of means-tested benefits in order to live properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1600.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1614.3", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I intend to cover those issues, which are very complex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "The work on health trainers was developed by talking to those on the ground about how we can engage people who are not presenting themselves to services in the traditional way. We have asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "ainers was developed by talking to those on the ground about how we can engage people who are not presenting themselves to services in the traditional way. We have asked— [Interruption.] I shall finish my sentence, if the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire will allow me. We have asked different areas of the country to provide information on such services, and we will evaluate their impact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1622.1", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "r group, which will examine how the initiatives will work. This is not about adding more checks—there are already opportunities for different checks—or adopting a one-size-fits-all approach; nor is it just about sickness: it is about health and finding a practical, non-burdensome way of engaging with people at different points in their life and getting them to think about their health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker) that some groups are denied access, with a resulting increase in health inequality. My example, which is analogous to the mental health example, is disability. My parents are deaf and from the age of four I used to do all the interpreting at any medical consultation that they had. The Government have done a tremendous job in tackling health inequalities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1628.5", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "use a Conservative Government introduced the Clean Air Act 1993, and eliminate or reduce the threat of infectious diseases, behavioural issues may still mean that some health inequalities are intractable and not reduced. In some parts of the population obesity rates may be higher, drug taking may be higher, smoking may be more prevalent, alcohol intake may be higher and sexual health may be worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1628.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1631.0", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady for mentioning that point. She clearly has not read, and should read, Conservative party policy at the last election. It was the Conservative party's policy—my policy—that we should have jointly appointed directors of public health between the NHS and local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1634.1", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "monary rehabilitation, for example. Such matters have to be dealt with, but for lung disease—for all that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a real killer—the disparities are striking. I was astonished to read that in the north and west mortality rates are 30 per cent. above the national average; in the south they are 30 per cent. below the average. Those are massive disparities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1638.4", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend, as I was a prime supporter of foundation hospitals precisely because of my constituency experience. This is the only way that people from Mitcham and Morden will get on any board of any hospital or health organisation in my area. Despite the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1638.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1661.1", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "No, because I gave way to the hon. Gentleman during my opening speech and he did not stay for the whole debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-16", "file": "debates2006-02-16b.xml", "sha256": "ef423ed749d8f60b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1661.5", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Tackling Health Inequalities", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": " absolute—they constitute a reduction in the gap between the average for England and the figure applying to the five most deprived areas. I accept that infant mortality has risen: it rose by 19 per cent. in 2001–03, and by 19 per cent. in 2002–04. That is unacceptable, but there was no increase during the second tranche, which I hope shows that the situation is not getting worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-16b.1661.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-27", "file": "debates2006-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "a494ae5cf83d5aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that our efforts to keep peace in Africa have been severely hampered by the fact that the Ministry of Defence has had to write off £400 million in the past two financial years, after a series of blunders by its procurement department?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-27", "file": "debates2006-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "a494ae5cf83d5aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.18.10", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it still the convention that Members of Parliament write to other hon. Members in advance if they visit their constituencies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.18.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-27", "file": "debates2006-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "a494ae5cf83d5aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Government of Wales Bill (Programme) (No. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "I am slightly surprised by the Conservative position on the programme motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-27", "file": "debates2006-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "a494ae5cf83d5aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "ions to the National Assembly for Wales\". I was delighted that he pointed me in the direction of that piece of research. I am hoping that he will intervene on me to answer straightforwardly why, when I asked him how much it cost, who paid for it and where it came from, he did not venture to inform the House that he sponsored it. He argued that it was a completely impartial piece of research—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-27", "file": "debates2006-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "a494ae5cf83d5aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I hope that Assembly Members have noted that the hon. Lady likened them to zombies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.33.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-27", "file": "debates2006-02-27b.xml", "sha256": "a494ae5cf83d5aa2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.39.4", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [1st Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what the position of the right hon. Gentleman was, but his party clearly did not consider the manifesto commitment on top-up fees to be sacrosanct. One wonders why this particular one should be sacrosanct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-27b.39.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "258c49a7ab8bda64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28a.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "te the activities of, any person\". Is that provision within the devolved powers in schedule 5, or is the clause drafted more broadly? Ministers may also \"exercise on behalf of any person any functions of that person\". I hope that they will not be able to exercise any of my functions on my behalf. We need an explanation of who are those persons, what sort of functions will they be exercising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28a.143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "258c49a7ab8bda64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "gnored by the Labour machine, which cannot bear to be questioned on any part of the Bill. In fact, the only amendments that have been accepted are those tabled by the hon. Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies) . I will examine carefully what the Minister said about that, but that appeared to be a Government-placed new clause and amendment because they came as very little surprise to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "258c49a7ab8bda64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to speak towards the end of the very long process of our dealings with the Bill. I spoke on Second Reading, I spoke in Committee, and I am pleased to be here at the denouement. I am also pleased to see that at the end of the long process of Welsh debate on what will become the Government of Wales Act, many English Members are gathering on the Benches here to see it through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "258c49a7ab8bda64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "ural justice, that there should be a Lazarus-like resurrection of candidates the morning after they have been soundly defeated. We will not agree on that, but we think that the changes are appropriate. I also wish to put firmly to bed the idea, which has been frequently thrown at us, that the most contentious proposal has anything to do with gerrymandering. We have shown time and again that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28a.224.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "The Minister will be aware of the excellent work of the armed forces parliamentary scheme and the Industry and Parliament Trust. What consideration has been given to helping humble Back Benchers such as me to improve their knowledge of the judiciary, perhaps through day-release schemes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.134.3", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": " that is the case in Wales, which has a logocentric culture—because they are part of the means by which people understand their political institutions. The separation of powers is one of the most important principles in the democratic tradition, and it has been enshrined belatedly but happily in the new settlement. The problem is terminological inexactitude, which was cobbled together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.134.3", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "n about 2000, but it is now being formalised, unfortunately. The phrase is inelegant, infelicitous and inaccurate, and it does not allow us to clarify for the Welsh electorate where political responsibility lies. There is an important principle at the heart of accountability. The National Assembly for Wales includes all the parties that are represented, and its Government includes the party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.134.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.143.3", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "te the activities of, any person\". Is that provision within the devolved powers in schedule 5, or is the clause drafted more broadly? Ministers may also \"exercise on behalf of any person any functions of that person\". I hope that they will not be able to exercise any of my functions on my behalf. We need an explanation of who are those persons, what sort of functions will they be exercising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.143.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "s are unflattering; they happen in circumstances where dictatorial Governments, very often monarchical in kind, wanted to have a parliamentary structure that discussed things, argued things, scrutinised things, but did not actually decide things. The trouble for any of us who take an interest in 19th century history is that the Minister's explanation sounds closer to those of Louis Napoleon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.171.7", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "are keen on the sharing bit. It is a serious issue to find the Liberal party on the side of the proposal, but I would expect that from it. I am much more unhappy about the Welsh nationalists, because the word \"principle\" means something to Welsh nationalists, and it therefore distinguishes them from my experience of the Liberal party. I always remember the person on the doorstep who told me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.171.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "I am trying to remember how many referendums were held in 18 years of Tory rule. The answer is: not one. I will take no lectures from the hon. Gentleman about referendums. His argument is bizarre. The purpose of referendums is to establish people's view on a change. It is pointless to hold a referendum if one knows that one is not going to achieve the change that is its purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.199.2", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I was not going to speak to this new clause—until I heard what the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) had to say, whereupon I was forced to my feet. I am sorry to say that if he presses it to a vote, I will be unable to recommend to my hon. Friends that they support him, not least because of the wishy-washy nature of subsection (3).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is perhaps in danger of being ruled out of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "gnored by the Labour machine, which cannot bear to be questioned on any part of the Bill. In fact, the only amendments that have been accepted are those tabled by the hon. Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies) . I will examine carefully what the Minister said about that, but that appeared to be a Government-placed new clause and amendment because they came as very little surprise to the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.222.2", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": " Wales have debated for so many generations. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman is also shot through with contradictions and tensions: he is certainly a complex political operator. The Secretary of State said earlier that the matter has been resolved for a generation, but I think of a generation as lasting 20 years. I am not prepared to wait that long to get primary law-making powers in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to speak towards the end of the very long process of our dealings with the Bill. I spoke on Second Reading, I spoke in Committee, and I am pleased to be here at the denouement. I am also pleased to see that at the end of the long process of Welsh debate on what will become the Government of Wales Act, many English Members are gathering on the Benches here to see it through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-02-28", "file": "debates2006-02-28b.xml", "sha256": "5c23b1d771df71a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Government of Wales Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "ural justice, that there should be a Lazarus-like resurrection of candidates the morning after they have been soundly defeated. We will not agree on that, but we think that the changes are appropriate. I also wish to put firmly to bed the idea, which has been frequently thrown at us, that the most contentious proposal has anything to do with gerrymandering. We have shown time and again that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-02-28b.224.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "91d03ae673970071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "Lansley) mentioned people queuing to sign up for private treatment, and that did indeed happen at a particular practice in my constituency. The dentist in charge of it sent out a letter saying, \"If you don't queue up and sign up, bringing your bank details with you, you won't be able to get a place.\" That resulted in hundreds of my constituents queuing from 5.30 in the morning, waiting to sign up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "91d03ae673970071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "preceding_text": "the process started, but the acceleration really happened in 1997 and 1998. I think too that there is a new understanding, and that is the essential feature. We used to teach students that genetics had nothing to do with cancer; it was all environment. Genetics has everything to do with cancer. We understand the causes of a genetic change that brings about a rogue cell that develops into a cancer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01a.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "91d03ae673970071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01a.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "I must continue with the happy tone by congratulating the Government on their fantastic record of investment in cancer services, especially the first cancer plan, which we have discussed. It was published in 2000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01a.355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.245.6", "colnum": "245", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has had several discussions with Asda, whose headquarters are in his constituency. Next month, he will be meeting with Tesco and Marks and Spencer, as well as Asda and other important supermarket supply chain participants, to discuss the opportunities that their procurement practices provide, potentially, for small farmers in developing countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.245.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.247.2", "colnum": "247", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Benn", "preceding_text": "ace process. Aid to the Palestinian territories will be reviewed against those principles. While the current caretaker Government are in place, the international community is examining closely what steps could help to stabilise their financial situation, as recommended by the Quartet. On Monday, the UK made £5 million available to the World Bank to transfer to Abu Mazen's interim Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.247.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " subject to unfairness. I am very sorry to have to say this to the right hon. and learned Gentleman and the Liberal Democrats, but I sometimes wish that they would spend a little of the effort that they put into attacking the United States on understanding why these international terrorism issues are so important, and why it is important that we stand with our allies in defeating global terrorism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.252.0", "colnum": "252", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ut into attacking the United States on understanding why these international terrorism issues are so important, and why it is important that we stand with our allies in defeating global terrorism. [Interruption.] People can say what they like about it, but I am also entitled to say what I like about it. I find the uneven way that the Liberal Democrats always express themselves on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.252.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "For once, I am in the happy position of saying that it is not up to me to decide how Parliament arranges its affairs, but I am sure that those who are looking at these things will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "For once, I am in the happy position of saying that it is not up to me to decide how Parliament arranges its affairs, but I am sure that those who are looking at these things will— [Laughter.] I do not know that an outbreak of laughter is the right response from my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I will take a bet with my hon. Friend that there will be more Labour MPs than Conservative MPs in the yes Lobby for the Education and Inspections Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Dentistry", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Winterton", "preceding_text": "ear would be able to use the money that had become available from one that had closed. So that would have added up. If, however, it did not add up in that way, extra money would be allocated, but it would not be able to meet every local circumstance. The instance that the hon. Gentleman has cited involves a dental practice expanding after the reference period. We had to have a cut-off point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.274.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Dentistry", "cue_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Martlew", "preceding_text": "Lansley) mentioned people queuing to sign up for private treatment, and that did indeed happen at a particular practice in my constituency. The dentist in charge of it sent out a letter saying, \"If you don't queue up and sign up, bringing your bank details with you, you won't be able to get a place.\" That resulted in hundreds of my constituents queuing from 5.30 in the morning, waiting to sign up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "Cancer Services", "cue_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Gibson", "preceding_text": "the process started, but the acceleration really happened in 1997 and 1998. I think too that there is a new understanding, and that is the essential feature. We used to teach students that genetics had nothing to do with cancer; it was all environment. Genetics has everything to do with cancer. We understand the causes of a genetic change that brings about a rogue cell that develops into a cancer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.349.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-01", "file": "debates2006-03-01b.xml", "sha256": "b45240ec79602d10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Cancer Services", "cue_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sharon Hodgson", "preceding_text": "I must continue with the happy tone by congratulating the Government on their fantastic record of investment in cancer services, especially the first cancer plan, which we have discussed. It was published in 2000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-01b.355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-02", "file": "debates2006-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "61f0c8c75d90f222", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Pickles", "preceding_text": "limited. In care proceedings, any carer who is accused of abuse should have an automatic entitlement to legal aid; the opportunity to instruct an expert of their choosing; a right of appeal against any findings; and legal aid for any appeal. I am grateful for the opportunity to raise these issues, but I wish to make one final point. I hope to be a Member of Parliament for many years to come—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-02", "file": "debates2006-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "e94fc4156ad2e1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02b.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for asking about development and the importance of the environment to it. Having met environmental groups this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02b.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-02", "file": "debates2006-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "e94fc4156ad2e1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02b.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for asking about development and the importance of the environment to it. Having met environmental groups this week—[ Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"]—as I have met them almost every month for the past few years, I see a huge interest in considering environmental and development questions together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02b.380.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-02", "file": "debates2006-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "e94fc4156ad2e1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02b.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not accept the hon. Gentleman's figure. Uniquely among our European partners, we have created 2.3 million jobs in the past eight years, and surely even the Liberal Democrats will acknowledge that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02b.386.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-02", "file": "debates2006-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "e94fc4156ad2e1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02b.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "us Government, productivity rose slowly and unemployment was high. Under this Government, since 1997, productivity has risen faster and, at the same time, employment has risen. The Conservatives are making a grave mistake if they think that people believe that a British economy that has grown faster, had more stability, met its inflation targets, had low interest rates and rising employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02b.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-02", "file": "debates2006-03-02b.xml", "sha256": "e94fc4156ad2e1de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02b.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": ", that we should find ways of encouraging people to continue to take advantage of the Post Office and use a range of other services that it offers. If Opposition Members had thought this through, they would see that there is a clear and obvious link between the Post Office card and the future of the Post Office, which provides a range of services. It should be clear to people using the card—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-02b.400.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-07", "file": "debates2006-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "99cd4a594ddfd980", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-07b.727.5", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Immigration (Work Permits)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I cannot give that absolute assurance. I have discussed the matter at length with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and we have agreed that by 2010 the scheme that the hon. Gentleman mentions would be wound up and the system that applies everywhere else would be in operation. I can give him the assurance that he seeks until 2010—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-07b.727.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-07", "file": "debates2006-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "99cd4a594ddfd980", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-07b.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "EU Financial Management", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "onsiderable off-balance-sheet liabilities were included in the calculation. He said that he did not possess that detailed information and that he would write to me, which was fair enough, but it is March and I am still waiting for an answer. Having given the Minister almost three months' notice of my inquiry, will he tell us tonight the ratio of debt to GDP including off-balance-sheet liabilities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-07b.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-07", "file": "debates2006-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "99cd4a594ddfd980", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-07b.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "EU Financial Management", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": ", each member state could decide its own level of subsidy for its own unique agriculture systems. Every country has a different pattern of agriculture. I do not think that there are any Welsh Members in the Chamber, but I have mentioned several times that we might choose to preserve the way of life of Welsh hill farmers. That is fine. It would not cost very much and it might be a good thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-07b.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-07", "file": "debates2006-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "99cd4a594ddfd980", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-07b.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "EU Financial Management", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "iament is determined to curb wasteful expenditure when its own spending has risen by 18 per cent., and when MEPs maintain the farce of commuting every month between Strasbourg and Brussels? How can the British public believe that the EU is seriously interested in safeguarding taxpayer's money, when no one in this country supports such wastefulness—apart from the Liberal Democrats, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-07b.781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-07", "file": "debates2006-03-07b.xml", "sha256": "99cd4a594ddfd980", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-07b.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "EU Financial Management", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I shall respond to the debate. Elements of the debate have been good—I wish I could say that the whole debate had been good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-07b.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-08", "file": "debates2006-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "a60dbc57ed7439b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.811.4", "colnum": "811", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.811.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-08", "file": "debates2006-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "a60dbc57ed7439b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.813.0", "colnum": "813", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": "May I inform the Prime Minister that if he wants to get in touch with me for any reason over the next few weeks, I shall be on paid paternity leave for two weeks from around the beginning of June?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.813.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-08", "file": "debates2006-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "a60dbc57ed7439b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ho, in the past few years, has overseen a transformation of the health service. Moreover, we should get the question of deficits in context. The total deficit is less than 1 per cent. of the NHS annual bill, but the most important fact is that 50 per cent. of that deficit is in 6 per cent. of trusts. It is true that there is a substantial financial deficit in the right hon. Gentleman's area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-08", "file": "debates2006-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "a60dbc57ed7439b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Ministers are responsible, but both Sir Nigel and Ministers can be extremely proud of the following achievements in the national health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-08", "file": "debates2006-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "a60dbc57ed7439b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.819.6", "colnum": "819", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "So what is the answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.819.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-08", "file": "debates2006-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "a60dbc57ed7439b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.819.6", "colnum": "819", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "So what is the answer? [Laughter.] I will tell the hon. Gentleman what makes me committed to British troops in Afghanistan. On 11 September , there was the worst terrorist act that the world has ever seen in which 3,000 people died. That terrorist act was done out of Afghanistan, and it was run by al-Qaeda, which was based in Afghanistan and supported by the Taliban.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.819.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-08", "file": "debates2006-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "a60dbc57ed7439b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.819.6", "colnum": "819", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": ". On 11 September , there was the worst terrorist act that the world has ever seen in which 3,000 people died. That terrorist act was done out of Afghanistan, and it was run by al-Qaeda, which was based in Afghanistan and supported by the Taliban. [Interruption.] I am proud of the part that we played in removing the Taliban, and I am proud of the fact that 6 million Afghans got the chance to vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.819.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-08", "file": "debates2006-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "a60dbc57ed7439b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Road Safety Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I am with the hon. Gentleman on this. These signs, which are used more in villages and small towns than in cities, are very effective. They light up to warn drivers that they are going at 35 mph—so I am told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-08", "file": "debates2006-03-08c.xml", "sha256": "a60dbc57ed7439b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.919.2", "colnum": "919", "heading": "TERMINATOR SEED TECHNOLOGY", "cue_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "Before I speak on this matter, I want to say what a pleasure it is to see the Minister of State in his place, particularly given his interest in these matters. Putting up a Minister of State in an Adjournment debate also shows that the Government see this as an important matter, so I am very grateful that he is here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-08c.919.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-09", "file": "debates2006-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be33ba8d7e09b80c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "es that enter into agreed action, to include the creation of a diverse range of providers of children's services or a sustainable local market for child care in England. Amendment No. 39 makes the same provision for Wales. I have a feeling, based on my experience of previous Bills, that for one reason or another the Government may not accept all the amendments. The Minister may tell us the reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-09", "file": "debates2006-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "63f6df0e8d38027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.953.0", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": " would want to congratulate the Government. Having a debate about the astonishing improvement in the health service under this Government is not something that the Government fear at all. We have had a number of debates on the question. On health service deficits, I have set out the figures before; a tiny number of NHS organisations are responsible for an overwhelming proportion of those deficits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-09", "file": "debates2006-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "63f6df0e8d38027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.955.3", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "I am not going to comment on leaked documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.955.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-09", "file": "debates2006-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "63f6df0e8d38027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.972.1", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Childcare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "managed to do what we said we would do, and get those details and the written statement over to Opposition spokesmen. It was certainly our intention to do so, and I undertake to find out why that did not happen. I am the first to admit that the situation is not satisfactory; I can but apologise. It seems, however, that the Opposition do not take exception to the new clause and the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.972.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-09", "file": "debates2006-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "63f6df0e8d38027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Childcare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Maria Eagle", "preceding_text": "All the easts, norths and wests can be confusing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-09", "file": "debates2006-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "63f6df0e8d38027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Childcare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "es that enter into agreed action, to include the creation of a diverse range of providers of children's services or a sustainable local market for child care in England. Amendment No. 39 makes the same provision for Wales. I have a feeling, based on my experience of previous Bills, that for one reason or another the Government may not accept all the amendments. The Minister may tell us the reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-09", "file": "debates2006-03-09b.xml", "sha256": "63f6df0e8d38027a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Childcare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "the local authority has no responsibility for the welfare of the child in the circumstances that the Minister described, who will carry out that duty effectively? My hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) and I have experience of children who are parked in our town, in small children's homes. Many of them get dedicated care, and many of their experiences are not good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-09b.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-10", "file": "debates2006-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "e2a84bd90633a67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-10b.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "That is a good question. As I said in Committee, we are trying to get the balance right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-10b.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-10", "file": "debates2006-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "e2a84bd90633a67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-10b.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": ". I have spent much of the past two weeks as a member of the Standing Committee that is considering the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, which would, if implemented—perhaps you would be pleased with this, Madam Deputy Speaker—completely negate the purpose of any Friday sittings. Any such Bill could be pushed through by the Government without the need for any primary legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-10b.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-10", "file": "debates2006-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "e2a84bd90633a67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-10b.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "I agree, Madam Deputy Speaker. I was just explaining the Bill's context, and part 2 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill deals with the subject of regulatory burdens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-10b.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-10", "file": "debates2006-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "e2a84bd90633a67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-10b.1070.5", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "ment and try to work out what the implications might be. For example, in my area, Burton parish council and Hurn parish council organise Christmas carol concerts on the green every year, and they may have to think about whether they should, in accordance with new clause 4, put up Christmas lights that will obviously burn energy and might have an adverse effect on the emission of greenhouses gases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-10b.1070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-10", "file": "debates2006-03-10b.xml", "sha256": "e2a84bd90633a67e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-10b.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "e United Kingdom is pretty well down the league in terms of the amount of energy used that is produced from nuclear. If the amount of nuclear energy produced across the globe was doubled, that would deal with all the Kyoto targets at a stroke. Yet there seems to be almost a conspiracy among people who are taking decisions relating to energy policy to ignore or underrate the role of nuclear energy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-10b.1078.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "218eea5b2ffea331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "to include Northern Ireland in the ban on receiving foreign donations, because parties that operate on an all-Ireland basis would be able to receive such donations through their offices in the Republic. If the DUP were to put its political headquarters in Dublin, it would have no trouble in obtaining international funds. That point applies to every party, a number of which already do exactly that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "218eea5b2ffea331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1218.0", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Wallace", "preceding_text": "lready been drafted or was in the process of being drafted, would sneak under the wire the extension of the amnesty to 2010. The Secretary of State referred to the ninth report of the International Monitoring Commission. It says that all in the garden is rosy, but it comes with a health warning that that could change at any moment. If it is all going so well, why do we need a three-year extension?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "218eea5b2ffea331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "o disclose any information about a political donation that is reported to them, right up until 2010. This Government have told everyone that they want to be open, transparent and accountable. Indeed, they introduced the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If a serving or past member of the commission gets a request for information under that Act, will it be a criminal offence for them to disclose it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "218eea5b2ffea331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way, because I must complete the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "218eea5b2ffea331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way, because I must complete the point. [Interruption.] I hope that it will be; we will have to discuss those matters later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13b.xml", "sha256": "218eea5b2ffea331", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1252.3", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "ate a list of designated documents. So far, the Government admit that it includes passports, residence documents and other forms of travel documents—but what are those other documents, and where is the list? They have not a clue, and it shows every time they argue for the Bill and against the Lords amendments. What will this exercise cost? Again, the Government have not a clue, and it shows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13b.1252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Iraq: Roulement", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "I declare an interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Iraq: Roulement", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "I declare an interest— [Interruption.] While entirely endorsing the Secretary of State's tribute to the work of British forces of all three services in Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1164.4", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Iraq: Roulement", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I am probably over-sensitive, but I noticed a hint of cynicism there. All I can tell the hon. Gentleman is that there is no connection between the deployments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "to include Northern Ireland in the ban on receiving foreign donations, because parties that operate on an all-Ireland basis would be able to receive such donations through their offices in the Republic. If the DUP were to put its political headquarters in Dublin, it would have no trouble in obtaining international funds. That point applies to every party, a number of which already do exactly that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " excursion into Wales. However, I take the point, made with knowledge and feeling, by the hon. Gentleman, who speaks for his party on Northern Ireland and Wales. On devolution, which is central to all our concerns, I was impressed by the speech made by my hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington) , the shadow Secretary of State. He spoke powerfully of the need to have an Assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1201.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "o disclose any information about a political donation that is reported to them, right up until 2010. This Government have told everyone that they want to be open, transparent and accountable. Indeed, they introduced the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If a serving or past member of the commission gets a request for information under that Act, will it be a criminal offence for them to disclose it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1231.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1249.3", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. Gentleman is correct. What we are saying is very clear and in accordance with the Labour party's election manifesto, which stated: \"We will introduce ID cards, including biometric data like fingerprints, backed up by a national register and rolling out initially on a voluntary basis as people renew their passports.\" Passports are voluntary documents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1252.3", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "ate a list of designated documents. So far, the Government admit that it includes passports, residence documents and other forms of travel documents—but what are those other documents, and where is the list? They have not a clue, and it shows every time they argue for the Bill and against the Lords amendments. What will this exercise cost? Again, the Government have not a clue, and it shows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Gummer", "preceding_text": "ept parliamentary language, untruthful to suggest that. I say to the Home Secretary very directly: no one outside this House believes you. No one thinks that what you say, as a translation of the Labour party manifesto, is what anyone else ever thought, and those on the Benches behind you do not believe it either, because they are honourable men who understand what the English language says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1258.0", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Greenway", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary knows that I have the highest regard for him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1261.3", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I have set that out clearly in what I have said, but I shall say it again if the hon. and learned Gentleman wants me to do so. The question, as the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. Clegg) said, is one of free will. Those are the words he used in his definition. That is the free will that people may exercise in deciding whether or not they wish to have a passport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1261.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-13", "file": "debates2006-03-13c.xml", "sha256": "3225c1e28258237b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "PENSIONER TRAVEL (TYNE AND WEAR)", "cue_speaker": "Nick Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Brown", "preceding_text": "istribution formula in Tyne and Wear's favour. Separately, the Secretary of State for Transport has given Nexus £1.7 million to deal with the potential loss of income for the metro, which Nexus owns, if pensioner bus travel is free but metro travel is not. I wish to place on record my gratitude for the part that the Secretary of State for Transport has played in trying to resolve that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-13c.1269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "7b467ed6ae2098ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14a.1391.3", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Her performance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "Apparently Ming is led into the ring and forced to drink some milk as part of his performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14a.1391.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1280.7", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Mini Ming!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "First, may I offer my congratulations to the hon. Gentleman on his elevation as a Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1280.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1294.7", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "I recently had the privilege of meeting the Mayor of Batman when he was on a visit to Hackney—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1294.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1309.3", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Gas (Supply and Demand)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "We have a vulnerability this winter and next winter. Beyond that we do not expect our situation to be any more vulnerable than that of any other country. We are fortunate that we still have an indigenous supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1309.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "There would not be any circumstances under which a four-year-old could have its tail docked .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1334.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1336.5", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Michael Wills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Wills", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend clarify the evidence on which he has formulated the proposed exemption? What is the potential damage to working dogs if docking is forbidden?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1336.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "Yes, but the debate is about tail docking. The hon. Lady did not serve on the Committee, and those who did realise that I have a propensity to talk at length on such subjects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1346.5", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "I have already given way to the hon. Gentleman. I know that other hon. Members want to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1346.5", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "I can conclude my speech and let others take part in the debate. Abuse is currently happening. Puppies die and are injured through illegal docking. I therefore believe that a complete ban is the only way to clamp down on illegal docking. The exemptions will create loopholes, which will be exploited and perpetuate the pain and suffering that the Bill is meant to prevent. I spoke to the RSPCA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1346.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They do not go down holes.", "preceding_speaker": "Russell Brown", "preceding_text": "The House has discussed various types of working dog today, including hounds used in hunting. The most prolific working dog is undoubtedly the border collie used by shepherds. Can the hon. Gentleman explain why those two breeds do not have their tails docked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1354.4", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "I have engaged in two lengthy conversations with Assistant Chief Constable Vaughan. He is under no illusion that the new clause would ban therapeutic docking; he is talking about prophylactic docking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1354.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "She has. I have seen puppies being docked by vets and I do not feel that there is any lasting pain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1360.0", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "preceding_text": "docked following a ban would not exceed the number of injuries in dogs that are not docked at present. The number of injuries would remain almost the same and we would not see any huge increase. One in six dogs—1 million—is docked. We do not have 1 million working dogs. Only a third are even working breeds. Thirty thousand dogs are docked a year, if the average dog lives for 10 years .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1360.0", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Snelgrove", "preceding_text": "s would remain almost the same and we would not see any huge increase. One in six dogs—1 million—is docked. We do not have 1 million working dogs. Only a third are even working breeds. Thirty thousand dogs are docked a year, if the average dog lives for 10 years . [Interruption.] Docking is a very popular practice and we need to be realistic and accept that there would be abuses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1370.2", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "This amendment to the Bill reflects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1370.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1389.8", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "ing met. I am confident, as are many organisations, that they will not be met. Therefore, the Secretary of State would have the power to prohibit those animals being kept in circuses. I heard what the hon. Gentleman said about the statistics. The statistics that I have from my constituency show that 78 per cent. of people would ban all animals from travelling circuses and 16 per cent. would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1389.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1390.5", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "cuses. Members of the Committee will recall that we touched on the subject at that stage. In some circuses that I know, dogs come in with the clowns and are in effect their pets. I do not seek to prohibit that, because there is sufficient evidence to suggest that the welfare needs of those animals will be met. The effect of the new clause will not be to ban all animals from being kept in circuses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1390.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "t the new clause, or how the people with whom I have been working interpret it. The principles are what I consider important. I have been asked what species I think it would be inappropriate to keep in circuses. I certainly think that it would be inappropriate to keep big cats in circuses, and, as I said in Committee, I think it inappropriate that Ming, the ancient black bear, is kept in a circus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1391.3", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Her performance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "Apparently Ming is led into the ring and forced to drink some milk as part of his performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shona McIsaac", "preceding_text": "rms of the keeping of large cats in travelling circuses. If the Minister is amenable to my suggestion, I will probably seek further clarification. If not, I would be inclined to push this to a vote. However, it depends on what my hon. Friend the Minister says. I know that many others want to speak on many other subjects and I feel that I have detained the House for far too long this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Paice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Paice", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but with respect the hon. Lady has had a good crack of the whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-14", "file": "debates2006-03-14c.xml", "sha256": "a3d8da1c286fc159", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1409.4", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Animal Welfare Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is misleading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "The Minister's complacency is astonishing. The fact is that there have been only two prosecutions under the existing legislation to which he refers, yet the trade globally is worth £25 billion a year, and the trade from United Kingdom websites is worth tens of millions. So to suggest that existing legislation is catching these criminals does not give the full picture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-14c.1409.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "2e056e38b0f3d689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15b.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Brent, East (Sarah Teather) . It is her first time on the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15b.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15b.xml", "sha256": "2e056e38b0f3d689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15b.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "han in any \"ism\", be it socialism, fascism, communism, nationalism or Conservatism. Let us be honest with each other. In the past 10 years, Labour Members have seriously considered the sort of comprehensive model that we want. We have set a course. Of course, we have not arrived—education is not like that. The shadow Secretary of State was a little pompous in some of his comments about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15b.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a very respected Member of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "and the Catholic Church. The IICD reported on 26 September that it had \"determined that the IRA had met its commitment to put all its arms beyond use in a manner called for by the legislation\". In January, it said that \"in the absence of evidence to the contrary our 26 September assessment regarding IRA arms remains correct\". I would have thought that the hon. Gentleman would take account of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1446.1", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": " Ireland is one of informed parental choice, and the Prime Minister has made it clear that he is in favour of such choice. In Northern Ireland, we have a system in which 40 per cent. of children go to grammar school, yet the majority of the population do not achieve their potential. We will introduce a system that best meets the needs of children, young people and the economy in Northern Ireland .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Of course I want schools to become trust schools, which is why we are introducing the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1452.0", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ols to decide, which is what the Bill says. Let me come back to the right hon. Gentleman's explanation of why he is voting against the programme motion tonight, and what is more Punch and Judy than that? If he wants this Bill to go through—he has said that I should not delay it—why has he not got his Members voting unanimously tonight, and why is he voting against the programme motion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1476.1", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "There has been some modest improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1482.2", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"1987?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "ill. Such schools are known as foundation schools with a foundation. Trust schools are the successors of our grant-maintained schools. It is a pity, unlike our approach of proposing grant-maintained schools clearly, honestly and openly in a manifesto for an election fought on that proposal, trust schools do not appear in the Labour manifesto. We made it clear, however, in our 1987 manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1488.0", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "at finally clarifies the ambiguity in the law that left teachers without legal authority to impose discipline in the classroom and in other appropriate educational settings. We want to probe the proposals on pilots for school transport in more detail before offering support, but my main concerns about the Bill lie elsewhere. The problem with the Bill as a whole is that it is timid on reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1489.3", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "te for schools to control their own admissions, as that is much more likely to entrench social segregation. One of the things that we have been looking into is giving schools an incentive to take children from disadvantaged backgrounds or who are underachieving and, under the proposals that the hon. Gentleman mentioned, giving them extra money to take those children so that they can do well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1489.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1492.0", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly look at that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1492.4", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": ", and I also welcome the change in language on supporting collaboration, but the problem is that the Bill does not include a lot of those proposals. As has been said, schools could collaborate through loose federations and more formal learning networks, or we could require schools and colleges to work together in a community learning trust, which would still allow external partners to participate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1492.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1492.4", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "ll does not include a lot of those proposals. As has been said, schools could collaborate through loose federations and more formal learning networks, or we could require schools and colleges to work together in a community learning trust, which would still allow external partners to participate. [Interruption.] I have no problem with the concept of a trust; my problem concerns particular details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1492.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1496.2", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "sity in the system, but we do not see why they should not also compete to run community schools. That is a local decision that should not be subject to the Secretary of State's veto or interference. If we want local authorities to commission, we need to decide exactly what we mean by that. First, we need to give them the power to decide how much money to put into education, and where to target it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Brent, East (Sarah Teather) . It is her first time on the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "han in any \"ism\", be it socialism, fascism, communism, nationalism or Conservatism. Let us be honest with each other. In the past 10 years, Labour Members have seriously considered the sort of comprehensive model that we want. We have set a course. Of course, we have not arrived—education is not like that. The shadow Secretary of State was a little pompous in some of his comments about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1499.2", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "e Bill that she had thrown to old Labour. However, I am reassured when I go back to the White Paper, because there is absolutely no doubt about the direction the Government were setting out when they produced these measures. The Prime Minister's foreword states that \"the local authority must move from being a provider of education to being its local commissioner and the champion of parent choice.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1499.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1501.3", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "I was a head teacher when the right hon. and learned Gentleman was Secretary of State, and I know just how effective those Conservative policies were at dumbing down standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1501.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1508.0", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "James Clappison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Clappison", "preceding_text": "92 White Paper identified five great themes in Conservative education policy—quality, diversity, parental choice, greater school autonomy and greater accountability. Those five themes ran through the Secretary of State's speech today. Labour Members may not have been comfortable with that, but I felt comfortable when I heard her talk about those themes—if not some of her other themes .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1508.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-15", "file": "debates2006-03-15c.xml", "sha256": "91a282ff901f8f69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1512.0", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education and Inspections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Phil Willis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Willis", "preceding_text": "e can relate and in which teachers in particular feel safer. The right hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Mr. Blunkett) and the hon. Member for Knowsley South (Mr. O'Hara) both made very telling speeches in their own ways. They both emphasised that their constituencies have dynamic local authorities. Sheffield was Liberal Democrat-led and is now Labour-led, and it has taken on our great ideas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-15c.1512.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-16", "file": "debates2006-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "b637317d567fef88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1650.3", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Desmond Swayne", "preceding_text": "When I was mobilised to serve in Iraq, which was not a voluntary process, I was required to produce a passport in order to travel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-16", "file": "debates2006-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "b637317d567fef88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1654.0", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Fisher", "preceding_text": "it against terrorism, international fraud and so on, unless it is universal. The idea that it could be semi-universal actually denies the whole purpose of an ID card, certainly in terms of its practical effectiveness. It is not unreasonable for the Home Secretary to want a universal card, but he does not want to legislate for it now because he knows that he would not get the measure through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-16", "file": "debates2006-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "b637317d567fef88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1658.4", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "Monday. On Monday he tried to persuade the House that it was not compulsion—that somehow it was voluntary as to whether or not we actually went and applied for a passport. So when we decided to go overseas, we got this ludicrous Alice in Wonderland description by the Home Secretary: \"That is the free will that people may exercise in deciding whether or not they wish to have a passport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1658.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-16", "file": "debates2006-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "b637317d567fef88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1678.0", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " apart from making statements and providing resources for the forces of law and order, is to pass new legislation. So that is what they do, and I suspect, to some extent, that is what we are doing here today. I hope that the Lords stick with it on the issue of glorification. I think that the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) wants to intervene, or maybe he is just waving at me. I am not sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1678.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-16", "file": "debates2006-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "b637317d567fef88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1680.2", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "ck attempt on Canary Wharf by al-Qaeda operatives. I have looked in vain ever since for any evidence of arrests or of people being charged, but there has been absolutely none. I suggest to the Home Secretary that that article was deliberately placed into the Daily Mail before the Queen's Speech in a shoddy attempt to stoke up public opinion to get people to support this measure in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1680.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-16", "file": "debates2006-03-16b.xml", "sha256": "b637317d567fef88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1689.3", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green) makes a point that I made a couple of hours ago. May I add to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-16b.1689.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-17", "file": "debates2006-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5d222445ef480d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17a.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill — As amended in the Standing Committee, further considered.", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "all he has in mind, it can be done at the moment, pretty uncontroversially, through the Minister's current powers. The hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) made the point that the Minister already has the power and that the clause simply makes it use mandatory. Why do we need to make it mandatory when the Minister is such an enthusiast? What is holding him back? Surely he is being encouraged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17a.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-17", "file": "debates2006-03-17b.xml", "sha256": "2f58731a99adea2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17b.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "—to acknowledge the potential role of the regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17b.1706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-17", "file": "debates2006-03-17b.xml", "sha256": "2f58731a99adea2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17b.1710.1", "colnum": "1710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "of that Parliament\". Here we are touching, importantly and properly, on the relationship between what happens here at Westminster and the devolved powers of the Scottish Parliament. I always thought that environmental matters were without boundaries. I have been told over and again by Euro enthusiasts that one of the great strengths of the European Union is that it deals with cross-boundary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17b.1710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-17", "file": "debates2006-03-17b.xml", "sha256": "2f58731a99adea2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17b.1736.7", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hollobone", "preceding_text": "We have heard that the diameter of a 400W wind turbine is 1.1m and that that of a 1kW wind turbine is 1.75m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17b.1736.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-17", "file": "debates2006-03-17b.xml", "sha256": "2f58731a99adea2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17b.1753.1", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "all he has in mind, it can be done at the moment, pretty uncontroversially, through the Minister's current powers. The hon. Member for Cambridge (David Howarth) made the point that the Minister already has the power and that the clause simply makes it use mandatory. Why do we need to make it mandatory when the Minister is such an enthusiast? What is holding him back? Surely he is being encouraged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17b.1753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-17", "file": "debates2006-03-17b.xml", "sha256": "2f58731a99adea2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17b.1759.1", "colnum": "1759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "be an identification of the costs, because the technology sounds pretty expensive to me. We have several resident experts—the promoter of the Bill, his hon. Friend the Member for Southampton, Test, the Minister and, on a good day, my Front-Bench colleagues—so an embarrassment of expertise surrounds me. I hope that at some point one of them will try to identify the possible costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-17b.1759.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "7db4b4daccba0ef9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20a.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "To be honest, I have not mentioned underfunding at any stage. I have not accused the Government of underfunding the NHS; that is not the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20a.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "oposals had widespread support. In particular, the concept of end-to-end offender management is almost universally supported as one of the tools that we need in order more effectively to protect the public. We will shortly publish the full report on the responses and Members will then see how we are taking forward the issues that we have identified. However, I have to say to the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.3.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.6.6", "colnum": "6", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Iain Wright", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Iain Wright", "preceding_text": "Next Thursday, I shall launch the neighbourhood policing pilot model in Hartlepool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.6.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "The question refers to \"hooliganism by British fans\", but surely the reference should be to hooliganism by English fans, as everyone knows that Scottish fans are a perfect joy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.14.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Party Political Funding", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "With permission, I wish to make a statement on amendments to the Electoral Administration Bill. The Government intend to amend the Electoral Administration Bill, currently before the House of Lords, to make it compulsory for political parties to disclose any loans they receive. That is an issue that affects all political parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Party Political Funding", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "oice. Is the Minister able to shed any light on how it was possible for such large amounts of money to enter Labour coffers in loans without the full knowledge of Labour's leading figures? Perhaps it is understandable that the Deputy Prime Minister would not be told, but can it really be sustainable that the treasurer of the Labour party was not informed? Why were the fundraising activities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Party Political Funding", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "ose to politics, and not for the first time under this Government? The only leading figure who knew what was happening was the Prime Minister. Does the Minister agree that he acted wrongly in not being open with his colleagues, his party and the country? His behaviour caused the crisis. The Minister says that loans should be declared and she wants to change the Electoral Administration Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Party Political Funding", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "ll be. However, I hope that in the spirit of co-operation, which he remembered to mention towards the end of his questions, he will make sure—as we want to do—that every political party, the Electoral Commission and all the stakeholders involved have an opportunity to contribute properly, so that we reach a decision that will sit properly and benefit our democracy for the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.24.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Party Political Funding", "cue_speaker": "Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that we on the Labour Benches are entitled to be proud of the 2000 Act, which introduced a new procedure for donations? Acknowledging that there is a loophole that allows parties to receive commercial loans, does my hon. Friend accept that her statement— [Interruption.] Opposition Members might allow others to speak. I think that they are a little on the defensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Department of Health", "cue_speaker": "John Pugh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Pugh", "preceding_text": "To be honest, I have not mentioned underfunding at any stage. I have not accused the Government of underfunding the NHS; that is not the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.98.3", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Department of Health", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "op my hon. Friend when he is in fine flow, but he might like to know, as might Labour Members, that between 1990–91 and 1997–98, hospital activity increased by 31 per cent. In the seven years after 1997–98, it increased by 19 per cent. If productivity had increased in the years since 1997, there would have been 1.4 million more operations in the national health service last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.98.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.98.4", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Department of Health", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "rks, I ask them to reflect on what has come from this Government's unprecedented spending. During the years when the Conservatives were in power, there were real, above-inflation increases in health spending every year and improvements in productivity. If the health service had continued to improve as it did under the Conservatives, waiting lists would have been removed altogether in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.98.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Department of Health", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He was here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will allow me to continue. I beg his pardon, but I did not see him during the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-20", "file": "debates2006-03-20b.xml", "sha256": "f1dfdbbbb18e1c9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Department of Health", "cue_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ooh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jane Kennedy", "preceding_text": "I certainly will not give way to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-20b.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-21", "file": "debates2006-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "038097f30388e575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Bishops (Consecration of Women)", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ope that the respect is reciprocated. I do not want to make a great issue of this. If the Church of England does move to consecrate women as bishops, I will probably be one of those who feel obliged to go elsewhere. We should remember that both the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, which contain far the greatest majority of Christians in the world, take a different line on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-21", "file": "debates2006-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "038097f30388e575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "nment Front Bench. They promised the British public at the last election that they would introduce ID cards on a voluntary basis as people renewed their passports. What they now propose, for which the other place is holding the Government to account, is compulsory registration on the national identity register, incidentally to get an identity card, by stealth—by some underhand secret method.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-21", "file": "debates2006-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "038097f30388e575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "Yes, as people renew their passports. As I said when we debated this issue just over a week ago, the voluntary principle is based on the idea that people voluntarily take out a passport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-21", "file": "debates2006-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "038097f30388e575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.194.2", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "George Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Howarth", "preceding_text": "Yes, as people renew their passports. As I said when we debated this issue just over a week ago, the voluntary principle is based on the idea that people voluntarily take out a passport. [Interruption.] There is no compulsion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-21", "file": "debates2006-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "038097f30388e575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.202.8", "colnum": "202", "heading": "London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "I could not agree more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.202.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-21", "file": "debates2006-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "038097f30388e575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.225.3", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Managed Migration", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I shall give way again in a minute. My objection to the proposals is that the Government are being completely ambiguous on this central matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.225.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-21", "file": "debates2006-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "038097f30388e575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.225.5", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Managed Migration", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "listened to it, and I could not have put it more clearly. We welcome people who will bring economic benefits to the country and who will themselves benefit from being here. Of course we also welcome genuine refugees, and we welcome the cultural diversity of modern Britain. I cannot put it more clearly than that. I would now like some clarity from the Government on the purpose of this policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.225.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-21", "file": "debates2006-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "038097f30388e575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.226.5", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Managed Migration", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "I am in favour of controls. I note that the Minister is not going to answer my questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.226.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-21", "file": "debates2006-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "038097f30388e575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Managed Migration", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "end that the Minister confines his dining out over the next few months to restaurants where there is a properly qualified chef. On the wider question of access to the skills advisory board, some ethnic minority groups feel that they have no easy means of obtaining representation on it. A measure to address that would improve their confidence in the system, which is rather less than the Minister's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-21", "file": "debates2006-03-21b.xml", "sha256": "038097f30388e575", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Managed Migration", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "ion would be wrong. In any case, I have good news for the hon. Gentleman: the flow from Scotland to the rest of the UK has ceased and reversed. The latest figures show that there is now a net flow back to Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom, so he need not worry too much. Keep up the good work and make the country as attractive as the rest of the United Kingdom and it is all solved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-21b.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "ea02cd19f8181daa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "Yes, it will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22a.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "ea02cd19f8181daa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22a.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "Yes, it will. [Interruption.] As I said, there will be 2,100 new places in Wales alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22a.271.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "24fb88a7437225ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22b.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "Yes, it will. [Interruption.] As I said, there will be 200,000 new places in Wales alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22b.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22b.xml", "sha256": "24fb88a7437225ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22b.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry to interrupt the right hon. Gentleman. The Chancellor was listened to with very—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22b.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "Yes, it will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.271.2", "colnum": "271", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "Yes, it will. [Interruption.] As I said, there will be 200,000 new places in Wales alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.271.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.275.6", "colnum": "275", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that response, but does he agree that Wales is uniquely poised to take advantage of initiatives in environmental and green energy, in terms of both job creation and the contribution that Wales can make to the renewable targets? However, does he share my distaste for the way in which Opposition Members flip-flop on the matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.275.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.275.6", "colnum": "275", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "d to take advantage of initiatives in environmental and green energy, in terms of both job creation and the contribution that Wales can make to the renewable targets? However, does he share my distaste for the way in which Opposition Members flip-flop on the matter? [Interruption.] In this Chamber, they say that they support green energy but, on the ground, they say something completely different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.275.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.276.0", "colnum": "276", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "In August last year, the Welsh Assembly Government, the Department for Transport and the Environment Agency granted dredging and disposal consents to the port of Mostyn Ltd. I understand that the dredging activity to date has been well within the authorised schedule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My understanding is that the early release scheme had cross-party support when it was introduced. Release on parole has been going on for many years. I do not agree that the problem has to do with morale in the probation service or the level of funding. It is to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.281.3", "colnum": "281", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I would simply point out to the hon. Lady that we have introduced in the Electoral Commission laws, and, indeed, in the party funding laws, transparency for the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.282.4", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": "The whole House will join me in celebrating the fact that this week is the 60th anniversary of the first Bill that introduced the national health service, which was presented by that great socialist Nye Bevan. Does the Prime Minister agree that if Nye Bevan were looking down now, he would applaud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.282.4", "colnum": "282", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Huw Irranca-Davies", "preceding_text": " is the 60th anniversary of the first Bill that introduced the national health service, which was presented by that great socialist Nye Bevan. Does the Prime Minister agree that if Nye Bevan were looking down now, he would applaud— [Interruption.] He would applaud the massive unprecedented investment in the health service by this Government. Will the Prime Minister give us a progress report?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.282.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.285.3", "colnum": "285", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have said before when I have answered that question that I will wait for the debate and I am not going to commit myself. It is important that we do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.285.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We have abided by the party loans rules completely. Again, I say to the hon. Gentleman that whereas we have now put out all the names—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ock to reform. He is a politician completely stuck in the past. Of course, there are some things in the Budget that we welcome—not least because we proposed them. I particularly welcome what the Chancellor had to say about independent statistics and youth volunteering. We will look carefully at the detail, but I like what is happening: I come up with the ideas and he puts them in his Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "sts were correct. Yes, he correctly forecast that the public finances are in a mess. He is borrowing £37 billion this year. He told us that his economic growth forecasts were correct. Yes, he correctly forecast that Britain would grow more slowly than the United States, Canada, the G7, Spain, Ireland, the countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and Australia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "hy did he not tell us that according to page 238 of the Red Book—or, in the Prime Minister's case, the unread book—the savings ratio is only 5.75 per cent.? That is half what it was when he took office. Why did he not tell us that business investment, at 9 per cent., is at a record low? And he did not tell us that today he has revised the figure downward compared with three months ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.303.2", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " unread book—the savings ratio is only 5.75 per cent.? That is half what it was when he took office. Why did he not tell us that business investment, at 9 per cent., is at a record low? And he did not tell us that today he has revised the figure downward compared with three months ago. [Interruption.] Mr. Deputy Speaker, there are two central facts that tell us the real story of this Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.303.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " wisely, to reform public services, to protect people's pensions, and to prepare for Britain's future—those failures are made in Nos. 10 and 11 Downing street. The Chancellor may see himself as the rock on which Labour can rebuild its church. Instead, he is the roadblock stopping Britain from meeting the challenges of the future. He is an analogue politician in a digital age. He is the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": " with low inflation and stable employment, the Chancellor had an opportunity to show his worth. He could have tackled the unfair tax system; he could have made the environment a priority; he could have faced up to the pensions crisis; and he could have addressed the problem of personal debt. He has declined to do any of those things. This a legacy from which it will be difficult for him to escape.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "Just to be accurate, I believe that approximately £436 billion is on balance sheet and about another £150 billion is off balance sheet, which is where we get the figure of £1.3 trillion from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.320.5", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "ncellor needs to face up. That brings me to box 2.5—a fascinating little aside in the Chancellor's rambles through the state of the British economy—with the catchy title \"Low yields and the Government bond market\". Normally, one's eyes would glaze over and one would pass hurriedly on, because it is usually a subject for anoraks only and I do not regard myself as being in that category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.320.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is not tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "he UK because the situation had developed less dramatically. A special factor in the UK led to the collapse in share values in telecoms and high-tech areas, and it goes right back to the door of the Treasury: the Chancellor's decision to target telecoms for another of his stealth taxes that would do no damage. If one takes £21 billion-worth of tax in a single go out of the lead sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "ay. Earlier, he mentioned points about the Labour Government's record that do not often get the praise that they deserve. Will not he accept that when the Labour Government came to power, the UK economy was the most powerful in Europe, it had changed and had already seen significant improvements in the number of jobs? If he could accept that, we could at least view his arguments in a balanced way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.338.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that due to the failure to implement the tax credit system, some of my constituents had to rely on handouts of food parcels from citizens advice bureau staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": " credit system, some of my constituents had to rely on handouts of food parcels from citizens advice bureau staff— [Interruption.] Labour Members say that is not true. If the Minister would like to visit my constituency, I will introduce him to the CAB staff who were carrying food parcels in the backs of their cars as a direct result of the Government's failure to implement the system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-22", "file": "debates2006-03-22c.xml", "sha256": "a52eda463d1f4ba1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Budget Resolutions — AMENDMENT OF THE LAW", "cue_speaker": "Mark Todd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Todd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not been in this House as long as me and therefore did not sit through the first Parliament of this Labour Government, in which the Chancellor consistently underestimated the state of the public finances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-22c.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "24fd2673878690db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's description of Conservative party policy is a total travesty. What we heard in the excellent exposition by my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset is that the Conservative party is now the party of our national health service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "24fd2673878690db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "hear that the Government are in favour of community hospitals, but there is no money for one in Wellingborough. However, the Government have a very useful formula for funding the NHS to make it fair across the country. That is a very good idea. The only problem is that when they announced that funding, they provided my area with only 85 per cent. of what the funding formula says the sum should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23a.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "24fd2673878690db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "Tory policy when we should be debating the Government's policy. There will be ample opportunity to discuss Conservative policy in due course, but today's debate is about the Government, not the Conservative party. Yes, we heard a 61 minute speech from the Chancellor, but there was not one mention of any of the initiatives that I have cited in the statement or in the 1,000 pages that were produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "24fd2673878690db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "other parts of the country cannot do their sums and run their services correctly, £11 million is being removed from our health authority so that it can be given to other authorities. Dorset, which is doing well, is being made to suffer and yet another health authority will go into the red. That cannot be sensible, and it shows exactly why we need the reform about which I spoke earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23a.503.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.434.2", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Territorial Army Rebalancing", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "As ever, I bow to the historical wisdom of the hon. Gentleman. I am not going back to the SDR because I am reporting on where we are now, although I appreciate his welcome for the statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.434.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Territorial Army Rebalancing", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "and that point has simply slipped my mind. Nothing has come through the ether to assist me, but I will write to him. He may be able to find the information in the detailed charts that we have provided. [Interruption.] If I may be allowed to respond to all the hon. Gentleman's questions, I might be able to remember the position. I appreciate his partial welcome, and I noted his concern about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "I will pass over the absurd question about my hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Mrs. Villiers) . When I was shadow Chief Secretary I never fulfilled that role in Budget debates, and neither has my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) fulfilled his role as shadow Chancellor in such debates. However, I will respond—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.443.0", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Letwin", "preceding_text": "of State for Transport is probably also a temporary occupant of that office. I note that the Chancellor thinks highly of him, and no doubt he will in due course offer us his own Budget, but for the time being he is constrained to dealing with transport, an important role which he fulfils with distinction. He is aware that the Government promised to reduce road congestion below 2000 levels by 2010.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.443.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "We have been moving towards that aim. We have increased expenditure on education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.449.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Not only did the shadow Chief Secretary refuse, but the shadow Chancellor refused, when he was pressed on television last night, to commit himself to that amount of expenditure. [Interruption.] Sadly, I do not have the \"Newsnight\" transcript and I can therefore only go on the impression that the shadow Chancellor gave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.452.6", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman could start by answering that he will meet our commitment to increase capital expenditure by 2010, as set out by the Chancellor yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.452.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "When a school is in difficulties or failing its children, it is up to the local authority, supported by the resources that it gets from us, to do something about it. The Conservatives say that they are in favour of the reforms, yet they would deny the education system the means to carry them out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will listen a wee bit more carefully from now on. I was saying that some meaningful protection was needed for those who will be hit hardest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will listen a wee bit more carefully from now on. I was saying that some meaningful protection was needed for those who will be hit hardest— [Interruption.] I do not know whether a Conservative Member wishes to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.482.0", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "economy in Europe in 1997, there were difficult decisions to be made. The British people were involved in times of great sacrifice, including depressions and high interest rates. The overall balance was, of course, the transformation—Labour Members know this full well—of this country's economic base between 1979 and 1997. This Government inherited the strongest economy in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.482.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "ard by the Labour-led council, backed up by the economy that I am describing. In previous years, the open golf championship disappeared from my area because of the lack of investment and no infrastructure being put in. All hon. Members, from whichever party, are welcome to come to Hoylake for an enjoyable week when it takes place. There is no need for them to write to tell me that they are coming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.491.4", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Thank goodness.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "tituency—I can speak only for my constituency—they have been a success. Six thousand families in my constituency benefit from tax credits and the new maternity and paternity rights that are coming on stream. In other parts of the Wirral, not necessarily strictly in my constituency, Sure Start and nursery education make important positive differences. Let me deal with the Budget itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.491.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. That has happened every year, and they have been wrong every year. My right hon. Friend the Chancellor predicts that the economy will pick up from 2.7 per cent. to 3.25 per cent. in the coming economic period and I look forward to that. I wonder whether the Tories will make another prediction that will be proved wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Surely not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "I certainly will if I get time, but the Minister is being a little unfair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "I really am grateful for that intervention, because the people of Wellingborough do not believe anything the Government say about education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "I really am grateful for that intervention, because the people of Wellingborough do not believe anything the Government say about education— [Interruption.] They have seen a secondary school knocked down, but they have seen no more money, and they are having to sack teachers from primary and infant schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "hear that the Government are in favour of community hospitals, but there is no money for one in Wellingborough. However, the Government have a very useful formula for funding the NHS to make it fair across the country. That is a very good idea. The only problem is that when they announced that funding, they provided my area with only 85 per cent. of what the funding formula says the sum should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "Tory policy when we should be debating the Government's policy. There will be ample opportunity to discuss Conservative policy in due course, but today's debate is about the Government, not the Conservative party. Yes, we heard a 61-minute speech from the Chancellor, but there was not one mention of any of the initiatives that I have cited in the statement or in the 1,000 pages that were produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "other parts of the country cannot do their sums and run their services correctly, £11 million is being removed from our health authority so that it can be given to other authorities. Dorset, which is doing well, is being made to suffer and yet another health authority will go into the red. That cannot be sensible, and it shows exactly why we need the reform about which I spoke earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-23", "file": "debates2006-03-23b.xml", "sha256": "9578ad73784cac00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Aah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend forgive me if I do not give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-23b.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27b.xml", "sha256": "c186b691b289823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27b.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": " I have answered some of her questions. I do not doubt her commitment to her constituent and the hard work that she has done on this issue, but I suggest that she looks at her website, on which she says that one of her priorities is opposing the Government's \"damaging\" house building plans. Well, we have to have houses to house people in the first place; nevertheless, she makes an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27b.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27b.xml", "sha256": "c186b691b289823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27b.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman ignored the other help that pensioners receive. The hon. Gentleman's fifth question was about billionaires. I feel that it is only right to ask him what is the Conservatives' actual policy on a property tax. I must remind the House that this property tax—the council tax—was introduced by the Conservatives, and we all remember the circumstances in which that happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27b.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27b.xml", "sha256": "c186b691b289823f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27b.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "s were taken out of poverty. We were successful. As a result of those policies, nearly 2 million pensioners have been lifted out of poverty. Of course, all pensioners benefit from and welcome some of the universal provision that we have exceptionally made available—free television licences for the over-75s and the winter fuel payment, well regarded by pensioners throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27b.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I know that my hon. Friend is trying valiantly on this issue, but we are constrained by European regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "d I have answered some of her questions. I do not doubt her commitment to her constituent and the hard work that she has done on this issue, but I suggest that she look at her website, on which she says that one of her priorities is opposing the Government's \"damaging\" house building plans. Well, we have to have houses to house people in the first place; nevertheless, she makes an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.531.5", "colnum": "531", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Don Touhig", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Don Touhig", "preceding_text": "I certainly endorse the point that my hon. Friend makes. Indeed, just a week or so ago, on 19 March , I had the opportunity to visit an outreach project at Sennybridge. It was a dry and beautiful day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.531.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Rural Payments Agency", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "y of their jeopardising the time scale for making full payments. I think that the whole House will understand that, and understand, too, our wish to keep the rest of the scheme on track. The hon. Gentleman said that the situation was obvious to all. I genuinely think that he was quite unjust to my noble Friend Lord Bach, who has spent not just hours but days working on this over many, many months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Rural Payments Agency", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "to allow for any hiccups and difficulties. Over time, that contingency was gradually whittled away. My noble Friend has maintained the closest possible interest, and I, like him, continue to reject any charge that there was complacency on the part of Ministers. Ministers are dependent, as is everyone in the House, on the information that they are given and the confidence that they can place in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Rural Payments Agency", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right to observe that Members were saying that the scheme was going badly wrong. Members were saying that payments would not begin on 20 February . They were saying that entitlement notices would not be sent out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.551.3", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Rural Payments Agency", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"2006.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "s the dramatic ramping up of the speed of payments that was expected to follow. As late as 10 March , the RPA was still insisting to Ministers that more than 51 per cent. of payments would be made by the end of March, and 96 per cent. would be made by the end of June. The issue of compensation has been raised before. I have already told the House that the payments window closes in June 2005—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.564.4", "colnum": "564", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to disappoint the hon. Gentleman but, although he may not have spotted it, we did not join the euro, and I do not anticipate that we are likely to do so in the foreseeable future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.564.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Council Tax", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman ignored the other help that pensioners receive. The hon. Gentleman's fifth question was about billionaires. I feel that it is only right to ask him what is the Conservatives' actual policy on a property tax. I must remind the House that this property tax—the council tax—was introduced by the Conservatives, and we all remember the circumstances in which that happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "I am now dealing with further education. If the hon. Gentleman wants to discuss further education, I will be glad to take his intervention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Byers", "preceding_text": "s were taken out of poverty. We were successful. As a result of those policies, nearly 2 million pensioners have been lifted out of poverty. Of course, all pensioners benefit from and welcome some of the universal provision that we have exceptionally made available—free television licences for the over-75s and the winter fuel payment, well regarded by pensioners throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-27", "file": "debates2006-03-27c.xml", "sha256": "c64b5d8be414bf3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-27c.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Right hon.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has already made it very clear that he wishes to stand aside from taking such decisions on nominations, which will require legislation in this House and full co-operation. I think that the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "one to digest them. This Budget does not involve great drama, because there is no fundamental restructuring or revolutionary changes of gear. There is no real point in engaging in an auction of hyperbole in which one side says that the Budget is all fabulous and the other says that it is all disastrous. This Budget needs a more dispassionate assessment of the context in which it has been designed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "ppear up its own origins. But fortunately the people can stop it. Everything is up against its limits. That is not my opinion, but that of the Minister for Higher Education and Lifelong Learning, the hon. Member for Harlow (Bill Rammell) . I have a little clip that states: \"A Government minister who admitted that Labour had taxed people to 'the limit' was rebuked by the Treasury last night\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.705.3", "colnum": "705", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "un a business quickly find themselves swimming in treacle. They immediately get an enormous book. We need a \"Treacle Swimming Emergency (Britain) Order\" to rescue their prospects. Any business person faces an enormous burden and uncertainty under the Government. The operating and financial review was a sad and sorry tale. Was the Secretary of State told about it before the Chancellor abolished it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.717.0", "colnum": "717", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "the man, not the ball. The Chancellor's consistent support of the national health service simply proves that actions speak louder than words. The administrators responsible for the provision of our health service have a difficult job—but heavens, how much more money do they want to provide the range of services that we need? The Chancellor has responded, so it is their responsibility to act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.717.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": " Shropshire and Shrewsbury dairy farmers. In fact, I know of only one farmer who has received his single farm payment so far. We were promised that the bulk of our farmers would receive their payments by the end of March. It is now the end of March and next to none of them have received their payments. Before the Chancellor leaves the Chamber, I hope that he takes on board my strong concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.749.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "Delighted to. Obviously the hon. Gentleman has not been reading Hansard . For every year of the Conservative Administration, between 1979 and 1997 we spent 64 per cent. above the rate of inflation, and for every week that we were in power we spent £1 million on a new capital project. He will have to ask a trickier trick question next time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More, more!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should—[Hon. Members: \"More, more!\"] It appears that both Chief Whips and shadow Chief Whips sometimes do not know when to keep quiet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "ease in school spending and the capital spending pledge.\"—[ Official Report , 27 March 2006; Vol. 444, c. 649 .] It is flip-flops all round. First, they want cuts, then they are confused, then they do not want cuts and finally they support our spending plans. What does the shadow Chancellor say now, when offered the opportunity to support our plans? He is unable to answer the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28b.xml", "sha256": "7acbbf18714915c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " then they do not want cuts and finally they support our spending plans. What does the shadow Chancellor say now, when offered the opportunity to support our plans? He is unable to answer the question— [Interruption.] Let us look at climate change. For the past six years the Opposition have refused to support the climate change levy, which has cut carbon emissions by 28 million tonnes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28b.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "afd8d29787f1d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "First, let me welcome the hon. Lady to her new position as the Liberal Democrat shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. The fact that she welcomes the low levels of unemployment is good, but it is a pity that when we introduced the new deal the Liberals opposed it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "afd8d29787f1d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.677.5", "colnum": "677", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "What this House wants is full disclosure of the donations by Michael Brown and others to the Liberal Democrats. I am sorry that even today the Liberal Democrats cannot commit themselves to revealing the names of their donors and loaners. It is important that there is full co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.677.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "afd8d29787f1d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.695.5", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "This year's Budget equips British business to meet the challenges of globalisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "afd8d29787f1d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "one to digest them. This Budget does not involve great drama, because there is no fundamental restructuring or revolutionary changes of gear. There is no real point in engaging in an auction of hyperbole in which one side says that the Budget is all fabulous and the other says that it is all disastrous. This Budget needs a more dispassionate assessment of the context in which it has been designed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.701.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "afd8d29787f1d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "ppear up its own origins. But fortunately the people can stop it. Everything is up against its limits. That is not my opinion, but that of the Minister for Higher Education and Lifelong Learning, the hon. Member for Harlow (Bill Rammell) . I have a little clip that states: \"A Government minister who admitted that Labour had taxed people to 'the limit' was rebuked by the Treasury last night\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.701.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "afd8d29787f1d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "ease in school spending and the capital spending pledge.\"—[ Official Report , 27 March 2006; Vol. 444, c. 649 .] It is flip-flops all round. First, they want cuts, then they are confused, then they do not want cuts and finally they support our spending plans. What does the shadow Chancellor say now, when offered the opportunity to support our plans? He is unable to answer the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.781.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "afd8d29787f1d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.781.2", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " then they do not want cuts and finally they support our spending plans. What does the shadow Chancellor say now, when offered the opportunity to support our plans? He is unable to answer the question— [Interruption.] Let us look at climate change. For the past six years the Opposition have refused to support the climate change levy, which has cut carbon emissions by 28 million tonnes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.781.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "afd8d29787f1d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "ing used, contrary to the original intention, for second personal computers and, indeed, for games consoles. There has been a huge fall in computer prices since 1999, and the Government want to focus resources on those who would not otherwise be able to gain access to a computer to increase their IT literacy skills. In addition, computer ownership has risen from 28 per cent. to 60 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.785.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-28", "file": "debates2006-03-28c.xml", "sha256": "afd8d29787f1d4a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "EUROPEAN UNION DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May we have clarity on whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-28c.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "cc07da63bcb36807", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29a.842.10", "colnum": "842", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply. As the House will know, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is on an official visit meeting the Heads of Government in Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia. While away, my right hon. Friend has supported all our athletes competing at the Commonwealth games. I am sure that the House will wish to congratulate all of them on their success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29a.842.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.840.6", "colnum": "840", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gareth Thomas", "preceding_text": "At the London conference, the Prime Minister signed with President Karzai a 10-year development partnership agreement to provide some £330 million of development assistance over the next three years. That is part of the overall UK pledge of £500 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.840.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.842.10", "colnum": "842", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply. As the House will know, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is on an official visit meeting the Heads of Government in Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia. While away, my right hon. Friend has supported all our athletes competing at the Commonwealth games. I am sure that the House will wish to congratulate all of them on their success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.842.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Taylor", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister's antipodean away-days are surely unconnected with my appearance for Question 1", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More, more\".", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to see the right hon. Gentleman back on the Opposition Front Bench in a leadership role. It seems that the Tories have been going through leaders so fast that they have started at the beginning again. They are now so green that they are even recycling their leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "been going through leaders so fast that they have started at the beginning again. They are now so green that they are even recycling their leaders. [Hon. Members: \"More, more\".] Us Rotherham lads must stick together, must we not? As for the £200 payment, yes, we had discussions with my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Yes, we discussed the winter fuel payment of £200.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Yes, we discussed the winter fuel payment of £200. [Interruption.] No, it was a commitment to pay that council tax rebate in one year, as we did. We have given a considerable amount to pensioners. If the right hon. Gentleman considers the record of what we have done for pensioners against what he did in Government, I will be proud to stand against our record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.845.6", "colnum": "845", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "This is where closed questions always catch you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.845.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "es. I am sure that we all know about hon. Members on both sides of the House who have been afflicted by that terrible disease. Not long ago, I visited the former hon. Member for Doncaster, Kevin Hughes, who is suffering from that terrible disease. He is still going out canvassing, which is a remarkable reflection on the man, and I am sure that hon. Members will want to send our best wishes to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ides of the House. As he has said, there has also been a wider public debate about how political parties should be funded. On the one hand, people do not like the idea of wealthy people financing parties, but they appear to be equally strongly against state funding of political parties, which has been my position for a long time. I think that we will have to move towards a form of state financing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Chief Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "vestment. When the hon. Gentleman criticises how much money we have put in, he should take into account the principle proposed by the Leader of the Opposition on the relationship between growth and spending. As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor pointed out in the Budget, that means £17 billion less in public expenditure, as agreed by the shadow, er—whatever she is. What is her title?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.849.4", "colnum": "849", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "That is for me to know and him to guess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.849.4", "colnum": "849", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "That is for me to know and him to guess. [Laughter.] There is constant reference to the incident that occurred during my election campaign, but I thought that we had finished Punch and Judy politics here. I know that I will be called Mr. Punch—what does he think that that leaves him as?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.879.3", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "turn their face to the wall and ignore the helping hand that is proffered by Lord Armstrong or they can be sensible and realistic and accept it. I had an inkling from the Home Secretary—I was slightly put off by his over-excitement at the intervention of my right hon. Friend the Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) , which I found a disturbing prospect—but I cast that aside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.886.3", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Shepherd", "preceding_text": "e extent of the discretion. I see that the Clerk looks agitated, so I shall leave the matter there. Nevertheless, I would be grateful if the Home Secretary were to address that narrow point. The wider point still remains—the issue is effectively about compulsion. I do not find the Lords amendments especially attractive, but I shall vote for them. These two equal Chambers of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Martin Linton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Linton", "preceding_text": "No, I am sorry but we are all under a time pressure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Palmer", "preceding_text": "I cannot, because of the time available. My compromise suggestion, which echoes that of my hon. Friend the Member for Battersea (Martin Linton) , is that we say that we accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "mittee and on Report in this and another place—to make the measure a workable piece of legislation. I endorse what the hon. Member for Ashford said about Baroness Ashton of Upholland, who is an outstanding Minister. She is characterised by her preparedness always to listen to what is said and to react politely and transparently. She is an object lesson to all Ministers in either House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.910.0", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "t year, 53 per cent. of appeals against refusals of entry clearance were allowed. It is worth dwelling on that figure. It is more likely than not that if someone appeals against a refusal, they will be successful. The initial decisions are slightly more likely to be wrong than right. I cannot imagine many areas of public policy where we would regard that as an acceptable initial performance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.910.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.913.5", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "h;it is probably the best example—is the biggest employer of immigrant labour in this country. The amendments seem to be designed, and rightly so, to catch private sector employers who are breaking the law. However, there is ambiguity about how the provisions affect the public sector, particularly that part of it which is undifferentiated. Will this be at trust level or at general NHS level?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.913.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Consumer Credit Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Prisk", "preceding_text": "r during a debate. It is such transparency that I seek this evening. Amendments Nos. 1 and 2 would alter clauses 7 and 20 respectively. Although they are technical, I have some concerns about their effects, to which I will come in a moment. Amendment No. 3, which, as the Minister said, inserts new wording into clause 29, is directly concerned with what we have described as \"irresponsible lending\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.1002.3", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "No, they will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman cannot have listened to the last paragraph of my speech, that paragraph being my reason for not giving way to him immediately. The simple truth is that this is not a perfect amendment. It is the best that we are going to get out of this Government. We have a poor scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.1004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-29", "file": "debates2006-03-29b.xml", "sha256": "4428e1006827cefa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Identity Cards Bill", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": "I end this argument as I began it. I am not certain that there will be a vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-29b.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-30", "file": "debates2006-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "a43c51ecd527ed76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30a.1097.2", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "nt. Despite the meeting that we had with the Minister, who was extremely courteous, when the figures for the final local government assessment were released they showed a fall in the total formula grant from the Government of £34,000. Perhaps there is a lesson for my hon. Friends; do not seek meetings with Ministers because we end up getting less money than if we did not bother to meet them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30a.1097.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-30", "file": "debates2006-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "a43c51ecd527ed76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He will be soon!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "hose measures, and include the climate change levy, which I have yet to hear the Opposition endorse. None the less, my hon. Friend presses the Government to do more and I am sure that my right hon. and hon. Friends will heed his call. It was a pleasure to hear the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire. Of course, I welcome him to his fairly new elevation to the post of Government Chief Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-30", "file": "debates2006-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "5c7a1752607dfbba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1029.4", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "It does not matter how many times Opposition Members try to assert that view, the fact is that the Government have been reducing tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1029.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-30", "file": "debates2006-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "5c7a1752607dfbba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1031.5", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Balance Sheet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend taken the opportunity to examine proposals to move PFI and contingent liabilities, breaking with best international practice and the practice of past Governments of all parties in this country, on to the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1031.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-03-30", "file": "debates2006-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "5c7a1752607dfbba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1045.3", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": " in Committee of the Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. Friday 21 April —The House will not be sitting. The provisional business for the following week will include: Monday 24 April —Second Reading of the Finance Bill. May I, Mr. Deputy Speaker, record on behalf of the entire House our thanks and appreciation for the extra duties that you have undertaken in recent weeks?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-30", "file": "debates2006-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "5c7a1752607dfbba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can make his local political points if he wishes. I invite him to reflect on the experience of Conservative councils throughout the country, which had to increase council tax year after year because of the withdrawal of Government grant. Let us not get into a big debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-30", "file": "debates2006-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "5c7a1752607dfbba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1097.2", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "David Amess", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Amess", "preceding_text": "nt. Despite the meeting that we had with the Minister, who was extremely courteous, when the figures for the final local government assessment were released they showed a fall in the total formula grant from the Government of £34,000. Perhaps there is a lesson for my hon. Friends; do not seek meetings with Ministers because we end up getting less money than if we did not bother to meet them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1097.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-03-30", "file": "debates2006-03-30b.xml", "sha256": "5c7a1752607dfbba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Adjournment (Easter)", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He will be soon!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "hose measures, and include the climate change levy, which I have yet to hear the Opposition endorse. None the less, my hon. Friend presses the Government to do more and I am sure that my right hon. and hon. Friends will heed his call. It was a pleasure to hear the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire. Of course, I welcome him to his fairly new elevation to the post of Government Chief Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-03-30b.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-18", "file": "debates2006-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "6b57581e60e3dc27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-18b.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "e is certainly no evidence that I have seen, or that the police have provided to me, or any intelligence, that either very serious incident, not least the barbaric murder of Denis Donaldson, was sanctioned, approved or in any way organised with, as it were, prior thought by the leadership of the provisional IRA. Let me quote for the House's benefit a statement issued by the IRA on 13 April —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-18b.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-18", "file": "debates2006-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "6b57581e60e3dc27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-18b.76.0", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commons Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": " west of England than in the south-east where much land has fallen out of agricultural use. The hon. Member for Hexham (Mr. Atkinson) mentioned rights of turbary. Those are not ancient rights that have fallen off the scale. I have neighbours who exercise rights of turbary on the mountain behind the village where I live. Another neighbour has piscary rights at a mountain lake in my community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-18b.76.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-18", "file": "debates2006-04-18b.xml", "sha256": "6b57581e60e3dc27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-18b.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Commons Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "sts on the relevant commons. For example, the Farmers Union of Wales has mentioned a majority of 75 per cent. We had quite a discussion earlier about the make-up of the associations. I do not know whether the document that I have in my hand, an example of a draft statutory instrument, has come to me surreptitiously. I hope that the Minister has seen it, otherwise it has come to me surreptitiously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-18b.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb152924515064cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I have some good news—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb152924515064cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "cumstances change, so why are the Government not concerned that people will become increasingly disenfranchised, as logic tells us that they will be, in a 10-year period? Ten years is a quarter of my life; it is one eighth of the life of the right hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) ; and, although I do not know how old the Minister is, I suspect that it is about one fifth of his life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb152924515064cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "I recognise that the SDLP, the DUP and the Conservatives are all ganging up against my four-year proposal. Let me put on the record the rationale for it. In essence, I was suggesting that we have the canvass in the year before the elections for the Assembly, which will be up and running and before we know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "fb152924515064cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that it is modest where I live. We all know from the property columns of newspapers that £1.7 million does not buy an awful lot these days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Fabricant", "preceding_text": "I have some good news—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.115.5", "colnum": "115", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that GPs, nurses or consultants are overpaid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.115.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the particular issue of hearing, but waiting times and waiting lists for patients for operations in the hon. Gentleman's constituency must have fallen dramatically. In relation to the numbers of people employed, in his area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about reality?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the particular issue of hearing, but waiting times and waiting lists for patients for operations in the hon. Gentleman's constituency must have fallen dramatically. In relation to the numbers of people employed, in his area— [Interruption.] I can only tell him that the facts that I have are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to the importance of the scheme, which is worth about £400 million. He is also absolutely right to draw attention to the need to end the arrangement with the split site.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.125.5", "colnum": "125", "heading": "British Overseas Territories", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "have far more recognition in the EU and secure far more financial assistance than do ours. The Bill does not go as far as the French and Dutch models, but it would do two very important things. First, it would give our British overseas territories the ability to have representation here in Parliament in the House of Lords. The Prime Minister would be able to appoint two or three extra peers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.125.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "Thank you again, Sir Alan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "Thank you again, Sir Alan— [Interruption.] And bless you, to the right hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.146.4", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I did not know that she claimed to be a priest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.146.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "cumstances change, so why are the Government not concerned that people will become increasingly disenfranchised, as logic tells us that they will be, in a 10-year period? Ten years is a quarter of my life; it is one eighth of the life of the right hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) ; and, although I do not know how old the Minister is, I suspect that it is about one fifth of his life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "I recognise that the SDLP, the DUP and the Conservatives are all ganging up against my four-year proposal. Let me put on the record the rationale for it. In essence, I was suggesting that we have the canvass in the year before the elections for the Assembly, which will be up and running before we know it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William McCrea", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mrs. Heal, and I thank the hon. Member for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) for trying, but perhaps he should stop digging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.155.5", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "icer recommending a canvass and the Secretary of State saying no, for whatever reason, the Secretary of State will remain accountable to the House for that decision. That accountability will provide for discussion, debate, censure, votes and everything else. The principle is that there may be a range of overriding public interests that mean that the Secretary of State wishes to examine the issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.155.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "For whatever reason, the Secretary of State might determine that on financial grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "I can assure the hon. Gentleman that it would not be modest for me, either. We all know from the property columns of newspapers that £1.7 million does not buy an awful lot these days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "Yes, again. I am very sorry to disappoint the hon. Member for South Antrim (Dr. McCrea) again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.173.2", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "Yes, again. I am very sorry to disappoint the hon. Member for South Antrim (Dr. McCrea) again— [Interruption.] —and the hon. Members for Foyle (Mark Durkan), for North Down (Lady Hermon), for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack), for Montgomeryshire (Lembit Öpik) and for Tewkesbury (Mr. Robertson) again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for clarifying that the chief electoral officer's recommendation need not be made public, and that it could be kept private—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.180.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "I will keep my remarks brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-19", "file": "debates2006-04-19b.xml", "sha256": "3ac31789248b0af1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.196.0", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": " need to be ready to move quickly if the circumstances are such that an early election is needed to cement success on the political front. That is necessary so that we do not face any obstacle.\"—[ Official Report , 13 March 2006; Vol. 443, c. 1172 .] Is the Minister ensuring that clauses 10 to 12 are taken out of the Bill because the Government are preparing for failure, rather than success?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-19b.196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1f65e86a698f24e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ight seek the same opportunity to ask questions that is available to all Members of the House. On the health service, I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman chooses to use emotive language such as \"sacking staff\". If he checks, he will find that year on year, the NHS is employing far more people than ever before. This year alone, there has been an increase of about 38,000 in the number employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1f65e86a698f24e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ne-grabbing initiative? The Government's proposals fail to address the real problems in the probation service, which is in desperate need of effective leadership and management from the Government. What does the Home Secretary have to say to Harry Fletcher of the National Association of Probation Officers, who says that the probation service is already poorly resourced and massively overstretched?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1f65e86a698f24e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "tely sure which I prefer. Winston Silcott, the man accused of the appalling murder of PC Keith Blakelock at Broadwater Farm, was later released from prison and took part in a youth diversion programme in the borough of Haringey. People said exactly the same thing then: how can somebody accused of such a crime now be on the side of law and order? However, I am delighted at every sinner who repents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1f65e86a698f24e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We are\".", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "In making his point so dramatically, the hon. Gentleman rather loses the precision of the point originally made by the hon. Member for Strangford (Mrs. Robinson) . We are not talking about the individual who committed the act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1f65e86a698f24e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "it is this Chamber, the Welsh Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Parliament or the European Parliament, provided they are not serving a prison sentence, it gives them the legitimacy to enter that Chamber, and, if they have majority support, to hold office. That may be distasteful. There are some people whom I would not wish to see walking through the door into the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1f65e86a698f24e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.315.3", "colnum": "315", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "ng with the crimes that are perpetrated against them. So there are lots of rights to consider, and no one is pretending that the 50:50 policy is fair. I am sure that we all look forward to the end of that policy. The hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan) referred to some of the statistics. I understand that the Catholic community represents about 44 per cent. of the Northern Ireland community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.315.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "1f65e86a698f24e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "nd support policing structures in Northern Ireland, the need for the policy would soon be ended, because people in the Catholic community would feel much more relaxed about making their applications. In conclusion, we recognise that the policy is far from ideal. A lot of work needs to be done. However, we must put up with it for a little longer and retain the hope that within a short period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. We are all aware that ramblers everywhere welcome the right to roam provisions warmly, but the Minister will also be aware that many ramblers would like an extension of the right to roam to cover Britain's wonderful coastline. Are there any plans to extend the access provisions of the CROW Act?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": " might seek the same opportunity to ask questions as is available to all Members of the House. On the health service, I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman chooses to use emotive language such as \"sacking staff\". If he checks, he will find that year on year, the NHS is employing far more people than ever before. This year alone, there has been an increase of about 38,000 in the number employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Public Protection", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ne-grabbing initiative? The Government's proposals fail to address the real problems in the probation service, which is in desperate need of effective leadership and management from the Government. What does the Home Secretary have to say to Harry Fletcher of the National Association of Probation Officers, who says that the probation service is already poorly resourced and massively overstretched?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "tely sure which I prefer. Winston Silcott, the man accused of the appalling murder of PC Keith Blakelock at Broadwater Farm, was later released from prison and took part in a youth diversion programme in the borough of Haringey. People said exactly the same thing then: how can somebody accused of such a crime now be on the side of law and order? However, I am delighted at every sinner who repents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "I do not mean this ungraciously, but the hon. Lady frequently throws a bucket of cold water on us because she shocks us into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.278.2", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Pound", "preceding_text": "In making his point so dramatically, the hon. Gentleman rather loses the precision of the point originally made by the hon. Member for Strangford (Mrs. Robinson) . We are not talking about the individual who committed the act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "it is this Chamber, the Welsh Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Parliament or the European Parliament, provided they are not serving a prison sentence, it gives them the legitimacy to enter that Chamber, and, if they have majority support, to hold office. That may be distasteful. There are some people whom I would not wish to see walking through the door into the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eddie McGrady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie McGrady", "preceding_text": "The point is that they are not being discriminated against because they are Protestants but because of the application of the 50:50 rule, which is trying to achieve an overall balance and equality between the communities. If we went for the hon. Gentleman's suggestion, the inequality between the communities would be perpetuated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eddie McGrady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie McGrady", "preceding_text": "It might happen, but not where I live in my community. The fact is that, whether hon. Members like it or not, the RUC was seen to be a police force that was almost in opposition to the Catholic community. I do not want to quote history or statistics, but for goodness' sake, let us remember what happened in Bombay street and Hooker street at the start of the troubles in Belfast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Eddie McGrady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eddie McGrady", "preceding_text": "ct is that, whether hon. Members like it or not, the RUC was seen to be a police force that was almost in opposition to the Catholic community. I do not want to quote history or statistics, but for goodness' sake, let us remember what happened in Bombay street and Hooker street at the start of the troubles in Belfast— [Interruption.] They wiped out Catholic streets one after the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.307.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-20", "file": "debates2006-04-20b.xml", "sha256": "316105a93407f77f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lorely Burt", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I feel as though I am in the crossfire; I do not want to get caught in it, because the wider issue relates to many tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-20b.316.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "16b658cc74592c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": "an operator from flying less full planes, the reality would be that areas such as Lerwick, Stornoway, Inverness, St. Ives or Newquay—whatever the airport in Cornwall is called, I have been there and it is a nice airport—and others would receive a much poorer service than they do at present. Such a tax would discriminate especially against rural and sparsely populated communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "16b658cc74592c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor intended that very good consequence. Here is another burden: \"The Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 1999 (European Works Councils). They get a thumbs up from Labour, but not from the Conservatives. I am not sure about the Liberal Democrats. They might like to intervene to tell me, or they can write to me afterwards—answers on a postcard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "16b658cc74592c09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "If we are trading cheap remarks, I suppose that I could say to the hon. Gentleman that he has only just come into the Chamber and has not had the courtesy to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "ct of some controversy over the weekend. This is not a decision to which Ministers were party. Decisions about lottery spend are taken by the lottery distributors and not by Ministers. The decision was taken by the regional board of Sport England in pursuit of the objective of getting employers to boost the levels of activity and fitness of their employees. The point is that this is a grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.345.4", "colnum": "345", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "With great respect, the decision was made by the regional sports board of Sport England to fulfil its obligation to increase participation in sport and physical activity, given the inactivity and consequent ill health of many people in the north-west. We will never reach a point where every single lottery grant is greeted with universal enthusiasm and acclaim. I accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "First, many of the staff who work in the 41 organisations funded by Sport England come from precisely those deprived areas in Greater Manchester at which lottery money should be directed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.346.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.369.0", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Lady for her question, and take this opportunity to welcome her to her position on the Front Bench. With respect, I think that crude assertions, drawing arbitrary lines in percentages and then making comparisons, does not assist us in deciding what is fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.375.1", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "I have followed the hon. Lady's comments on this relatively minor area of taxation with interest. I sat through almost all the first day of the Budget debate, when I cannot recall Conservative Members mentioning the matter, which has suddenly become important to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.375.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "he, like me, favours a swingeing top band for vehicle excise duty. I am not sure where the top band should start. Perhaps it should begin with carbon dioxide emissions of 250 g per kilometre, involving a fine of, say, £2,000. Would the hon. Lady care to say whether she or her colleagues would support such a swingeing top rate? She referred to it, but did not say whether she would support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": ", because I would like greater clarity. The tenor of her remarks suggested that she wanted to defend the rich. There is a lot to be said for the rich, but we do not need to defend them too much in terms of trusts taxation, because they can afford to employ a whole team of people to defend themselves. However, we do need the Government to clarify whether the provision applies to just the very rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Doug Henderson", "preceding_text": "an operator from flying less full planes, the reality would be that areas such as Lerwick, Stornoway, Inverness, St. Ives or Newquay—whatever the airport in Cornwall is called; I have been there and it is a nice airport—and others would receive a much poorer service than they do at present. Such a tax would discriminate especially against rural and sparsely populated communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor intended that very good consequence. Here is another burden: \"The Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations 1999 (European Works Councils). They get a thumbs up from Labour, but not from the Conservatives. I am not sure about the Liberal Democrats. They might like to intervene to tell me, or they can write to me afterwards—answers on a postcard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hesitation!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "had a mortgage or still have one. Some hon. Members have two mortgages, and I believe that other hon. Members have six or seven, but I am not sure. Then there is the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003. Again, it is possible that that is a duplication that we did not need, given that the Groundwater Regulations 1998 came earlier. I have lost my place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Repetition!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": ". Members have two mortgages, and I believe that other hon. Members have six or seven, but I am not sure. Then there is the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003. Again, it is possible that that is a duplication that we did not need, given that the Groundwater Regulations 1998 came earlier. I have lost my place. [Hon. Members: \"Hesitation!\"] Hesitation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "If we are trading cheap remarks, I suppose that I could say to the hon. Gentleman that he has only just come into the Chamber and has not had the courtesy to take part in the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "pped up in speeches by Members on both sides of the House—which they should reconsider. The hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Julia Goldsworthy) spoke on behalf of the Liberal Democrats. I, too, welcome her to her new responsibilities, but may I offer her a tip? She lectured the House about posturing, but there is delightful irony in being lectured on that subject by a Liberal Democrat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "ffected. To give her further reassurance, the Charity Finance Directors Group has said that it believes that it is essential that the charity brand is protected and not tainted by association with tax avoidance schemes. The Charities Tax Reform Group strongly welcomed the introduction of measures to prevent the exploitation of tax reliefs for charities by donors of large amounts, to their benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": " her further reassurance, the Charity Finance Directors Group has said that it believes that it is essential that the charity brand is protected and not tainted by association with tax avoidance schemes. The Charities Tax Reform Group strongly welcomed the introduction of measures to prevent the exploitation of tax reliefs for charities by donors of large amounts, to their benefit. [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-24", "file": "debates2006-04-24b.xml", "sha256": "c044e70b41e0bb5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.470.3", "colnum": "470", "heading": "PETITION — Canvey Calor Gas Site", "cue_speaker": "Bob Spink", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bob Spink", "preceding_text": "I present a petition against the terminal on Canvey island for the importation of liquefied natural gas that is signed by almost 10,000 people. We must have a public inquiry into this as soon as possible, and we can accept no increase in risk for Canvey people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-24b.470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-25", "file": "debates2006-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "74108aeac9c54ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There is a history to Iran, as there is to many other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-25", "file": "debates2006-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "74108aeac9c54ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There is a history to Iran, as there is to many other countries. [Interruption.] That was a statement of the blindingly obvious, and I shall withdraw it, if I may, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-25", "file": "debates2006-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "74108aeac9c54ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.489.4", "colnum": "489", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "lleagues on both sides of the House, for the welcome that they gave the Secretary of State? Inevitably, some of the coverage dealt with the demonstrations, which simply illustrates that this, like America, is a free country. The Secretary of State kept saying that she was fully able to take those things in her stride. She was also able to see Liverpool and the centre of the world, Blackburn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.489.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-25", "file": "debates2006-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "74108aeac9c54ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hesitation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "He is. I fully understand the spirit in which the compliment was offered to me, and I take it in that spirit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-25", "file": "debates2006-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "74108aeac9c54ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "He is. I fully understand the spirit in which the compliment was offered to me, and I take it in that spirit—[Hon. Members: \"Hesitation.\"] I am afraid that I have always recognised that I would be no good on \"Just a Minute\", because all Ministers display hesitation, deviation and repetition in large quantities. To return to the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.490.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-25", "file": "debates2006-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "74108aeac9c54ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "o have a constituency in the same way as everyone else. My first port of call would be to demand a meeting between the Members affected, led by the hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Mike Penning) , and the appropriate Minister—whether that is a Defence Minister or the Minister for Local Government. There is a Minister in that Department who used to a fireman, so he will know about the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-25", "file": "debates2006-04-25b.xml", "sha256": "74108aeac9c54ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing Corporation (Delegation) etc. Bill", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "rged from the Army and having been moved from base to base with their families, only to find that, unless they are homeless, they are not entitled, under housing association rules, to be placed on the register. They often face that difficulty only four weeks on from discharge. It is an impossible position to be in. I know that the Minister has already been approached about that problem, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-25b.524.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "4e273218440b354b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26a.602.4", "colnum": "602", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " and we will crack down on them. Indeed, we have been very successful in doing so, but there are no guarantees in this regard. Again, I say to him and his colleagues—I am sure that he will take this in good spirit—that there will come a time when DUP Members, having stood firm and having seen results flow from that, will have to acknowledge the massive changes that have occurred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26a.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e2db294957eb2b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26b.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "nisters. I have known the right hon. Gentleman for 30 years, and despite our differences, I have always had a broad degree of respect for him. However, as the right hon. Gentleman has reminded us over the last few days, it is the first duty of government to protect the public—and I am afraid that events of the last few days have demonstrated a culpable failure to protect public safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26b.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e2db294957eb2b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26b.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "h there seems to be a general recognition that the form of the 11-plus could be altered. However, we should let the Assembly get its teeth into this issue and deal with it. As I said in a jocular aside to the right hon. Member for North Antrim, I am not sure that this House should even be passing water until 24 November ; there again, there are deep divisions in Northern Ireland and real concerns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26b.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26b.xml", "sha256": "e2db294957eb2b73", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26b.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "t the Assembly get its teeth into this issue and deal with it. As I said in a jocular aside to the right hon. Member for North Antrim, I am not sure that this House should even be passing water until 24 November ; there again, there are deep divisions in Northern Ireland and real concerns. [Interruption.] Perhaps that is what the right hon. Gentleman, who is no longer in his place, has gone to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26b.638.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.561.0", "colnum": "561", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.561.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Again, it is important to emphasise that many of those 288—more than 70, I think—have been considered. Indeed, some of them have been deported. It is, however, correct that all of them must now be considered. The point that I am making to the right hon. Gentleman is that from last year extra resources and extra staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. When the Prime Minister is asked a question, he must be allowed to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.565.4", "colnum": "565", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "First, I did give the right hon. Gentleman the facts on the 1,023 prisoners, and I indicated that over a third of them have already had their cases considered, or are in the course of being considered. As for the national health service, I think that people know very well, when they compare—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "wspapers about NHS staff cuts, even though the first new hospital for 70 years has been built in Birmingham, at a cost of £600 million. Will the Prime Minister give me an assurance that the NHS will continue to have well trained and motivated staff, so that we can continue to reform the service? We must not return to the real crisis, which happened when the Tories tried to dismantle the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.571.0", "colnum": "571", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will be pleased to know that there are 100 extra nurses in our local hospitals in the Hastings area. This year alone, we have 15 extra community nurses and a primary care trust that is in balance and delivering services. But—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I am happy to look into the hon. Gentleman's point about how payment by results applies in his PCT, but when people talk about cuts in NHS finances, I have to say again that there is, on any basis, a huge increase in national health service financing for his area. On waiting times, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.572.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.573.4", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "ation of the most serious cases has, of course, commenced and I will report further on progress by the end of this week. It may help to put the matter in context if I say that in the two calendar years 2004 and 2005, around 3,000 foreign national prisoners were deported. I am confident that we can build on this performance and I am considering how we might tighten our processes even further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.573.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal)", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "nisters. I have known the right hon. Gentleman for 30 years, and despite our differences, I have always had a broad degree of respect for him. However, as the right hon. Gentleman has reminded us over the last few days, it is the first duty of Government to protect the public—and I am afraid that events of the last few days have demonstrated a culpable failure to protect public safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I think that there are three points that I want to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "I think that there are three points that I want to make. [Hon. Members: \"Resign!\"] I am terribly sorry to disappoint Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.575.4", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Take responsibility!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden requests, when I have it in every respect—I will not do it partially. The third point that I want to make in response to what the right hon. Gentleman said is that I think that the first duty of everyone in public life, certainly everyone in government, is to take responsibility to improve the situation and deal with things in the proper way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.575.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "As I said, we are proceeding on that. I have given figures on where we are, and I said that I would report further. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman would agree that if an identity card system had been in place, it would have been easier to move more quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.580.3", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal)", "cue_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ministers!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lindsay Hoyle", "preceding_text": " my right hon. Friend that people expect action, and to know that no more will be released? What special advice has he given to the Prison Service and chief constables to get those dangerous people back off the streets, into prison and deported—whenever that may be? We need to know that the matter is being taken seriously, and the public expect officials in the civil service to resign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal)", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has put her finger on the problem. It is important to make those decisions while people are still serving their sentence so that they can be executed before they leave prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.581.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.602.4", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": " and we will crack down on them. Indeed, we have been very successful in doing so, but there are no guarantees in this regard. Again, I say to him and his colleagues—I am sure that he will take this in good spirit—that there will come a time when DUP Members, having stood firm and having seen results flow from that, will have to acknowledge the massive changes that have occurred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.609.4", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosie Cooper", "preceding_text": "I genuinely understand the situation in which Northern Ireland Members find themselves, but this is now a question of priorities. In carrying out their role as elected Northern Ireland Members, they need to consider the impact of following to its conclusion the zero-tolerance policy that we have heard about today. They really—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.609.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.627.2", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Absolutely.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "Just in case there is any confusion or doubt, I am a very poor lookalike for the former right hon. Member for Upper Bann. Reflecting on the point that the hon. Gentleman has made about the inconvenience, difficulty and pressure that an election might put on political parties, I must say, with the greatest respect to him, that elections are for the people to express their will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.627.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "h there seems to be a general recognition that the form of the 11-plus could be altered. However, we should let the Assembly get its teeth into this issue and deal with it. As I said in a jocular aside to the right hon. Member for North Antrim, I am not sure that this House should even be passing water until 24 November ; there again, there are deep divisions in Northern Ireland and real concerns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "t the Assembly get its teeth into this issue and deal with it. As I said in a jocular aside to the right hon. Member for North Antrim, I am not sure that this House should even be passing water until 24 November ; there again, there are deep divisions in Northern Ireland and real concerns. [Interruption.] Perhaps that is what the right hon. Gentleman, who is no longer in his place, has gone to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "It might be useful if I begin by saying that my colleagues and I have entered into a pact; we will speak for no more than 10 minutes each, so that all hon. Members who want to contribute to the debate can do so. That shows that concessions are being made already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.666.0", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": "at interest to the debate and know that all my colleagues have made valid points. I have never had the privilege or the opportunity—whatever word one wishes to use—of sitting in the Northern Ireland Assembly. I listened to the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier) , who used the word \"tantalising\". Well, when it comes to a three-course meal or a large steak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-26", "file": "debates2006-04-26c.xml", "sha256": "46623ebde394ba71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": "I thank the Secretary of State. May I finish by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-26c.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "fb5942e4269a77f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.697.4", "colnum": "697", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": " the staff that they wish to employ. Among the 1,000 foreign convicted criminals released by the Home Office, there were drug dealers, violent offenders and 21 sex offenders, some of whom had been accused of offences against children. Can the Secretary of State assure the academies and all parents that any offenders who should have been placed on list 99 and on the register of sex offenders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.697.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "fb5942e4269a77f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady has some interesting definitions of what she means by job cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "fb5942e4269a77f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ting definitions of what she means by job cuts. [Interruption.] I know that it has become fashionable for Conservative Members to identify particular areas of the country where restructuring and modernisation has taken place, and then to extrapolate a general picture from those isolated examples. It is for them to check carefully exactly what they mean by job cuts, not least in relation to nurses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "fb5942e4269a77f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ble, but domestic burglary was down by 13 per cent. and vehicle thefts were down by 14 per cent. That is an improvement. It is not sufficient; we want still greater progress. Again, that improvement is hardly helped by the Conservative party's consistent policy of opposing the very policies that we have proposed to make that happen, opposing greater numbers of police officers on the streets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "fb5942e4269a77f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should first put on record that I never lectured in constitutional law, but I did lecture in employment law, which might be more relevant to the fate of the Ministers concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "fb5942e4269a77f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.746.7", "colnum": "746", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "I think all contributions, in particular the comment by the Secretary of State, have been helpful. I will move on, because I think we ought to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.746.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "fb5942e4269a77f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "ressed, but I take it that the DUP, and certainly its leader, would prefer to select the Presiding Officer since it is they who sit in the Assembly, rather than have a Presiding Officer nominated, appointed and swept into power. That is no criticism of the individual herself, but it is an appointment that has been made, and it will be deemed to take effect under the Bill by the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "fb5942e4269a77f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The proposals by the hon. Member for North Down in amendments Nos. 21 to 23 that it should be known as \"the Forum\" would be misleading, although I know that that is not her intention. I hope that she will not press her amendments to a vote. To conclude, Mrs. Heal—I am proud, as a Welsh MP, that a proud Welsh woman is in the chair, whose husband is a proud member of my local rugby club—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27a.780.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "e283ab289bdac00a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.697.5", "colnum": "697", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is totally and utterly out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.697.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "e283ab289bdac00a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady has some interesting definitions of what she means by job cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "e283ab289bdac00a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ing definitions of what she means by job cuts. [Interruption.] I know that it has become fashionable for Conservative Members to identify particular areas of the country where restructuring and modernisation have taken place, and then to extrapolate a general picture from those isolated examples. It is for them to check carefully exactly what they mean by job cuts, not least in relation to nurses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "e283ab289bdac00a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.712.2", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "ble, but domestic burglary was down by 13 per cent. and vehicle thefts were down by 14 per cent. That is an improvement. It is not sufficient; we want still greater progress. Again, that improvement is hardly helped by the Conservative party's consistent policy of opposing the very policies that we have proposed to make that happen, opposing greater numbers of police officers on the streets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "e283ab289bdac00a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should first put on the record that I never lectured in constitutional law, but I did lecture in employment law, which might be more relevant to the fate of the Ministers concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "e283ab289bdac00a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.746.7", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "I think that all contributions, in particular the comment by the Secretary of State, have been helpful. I will move on, because I think we ought to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.746.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "e283ab289bdac00a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.750.5", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sir Michael.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "I am grateful, Mr. Lord.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.750.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "e283ab289bdac00a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "The proposals by the hon. Member for North Down in amendments Nos. 21 to 23 that it should be known as \"the Forum\" would be misleading, although I know that that is not her intention. I hope that she will not press her amendments to a vote. To conclude, Mrs. Heal—I am proud, as a Welsh MP, that a proud Welsh woman is in the Chair, whose husband is a proud member of my local rugby club—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-04-27", "file": "debates2006-04-27b.xml", "sha256": "e283ab289bdac00a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "respect for this Parliament—I am sure that hon. Members share that view. I have come into the Chamber—in the case not only of this Bill, but the previous Bill relating to Northern Ireland—undecided on how to vote on a number of issues and I have listened to the arguments. Parliament is at its best when hon. Members do that and are not necessarily whipped into one line or another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-04-27b.789.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "eeb9ee623441f152", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02a.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I am inclined to believe specialists who work extensively in the field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02a.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "eeb9ee623441f152", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "he House is to try to expose that, and then try to persuade the Government to change their mind. There was adverse reaction from employers who have promoted the scheme to their employees, as the Government encouraged them to do. Andrew Unsworth, the head of e-Government at the City of Edinburgh council, which is Labour-run—at least until Thursday—sent the following e-mail this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "I did not support it because I was not a Member of Parliament at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.852.3", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "I am inclined to believe specialists who work extensively in the field—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.852.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "I accept that this legislation includes a transitional period over the next two years, but I still argue that many trusts that have existed for decades—centuries in some cases—will be significantly penalised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.878.5", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": " part of a multi-channelled approach that will deliver for the targeted groups. The Government are making the case that it is necessary to use those resources to target the groups in greatest need and in which take-up is lowest. To ensure the best use of ICT in tackling this type of social exclusion, I am announcing today that the Government are setting up a dedicated digital inclusion team—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.878.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "he House is to try to expose that, and then try to persuade the Government to change their mind. There was adverse reaction from employers who have promoted the scheme to their employees, as the Government encouraged them to do. Andrew Unsworth, the head of e-Government at the city of Edinburgh council, which is Labour-run—at least until Thursday—sent the following e-mail this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.889.3", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman is talking about an industry that sells computers, which has been around for a long time. That industry will continue, irrespective of whether this particular legislation goes ahead. The hon. Gentleman has not taken into account the fact that the scheme will move on to a different phase, focused on provision for the elderly and the unemployed who really need these IT skills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.889.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.889.4", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "e said that the scheme had only a 4 per cent. take-up, but that is nonsense. I have already provided one example of an organisation that saw take-up of 16 per cent. and it has been at that level or higher for a number of organisations. The take-up among employers pushing the scheme has been very healthy and I have already argued that the scheme was about to take off with other organisations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.889.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. Many people entered into the arrangement in good faith, having been encouraged to do so by their employers. Indeed, they were ultimately encouraged to do so by the Government. Now, suddenly, that benefit is effectively being withdrawn, or will be once their individual contracts with their employers expire. Those people will understandably feel let down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.891.3", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "In my experience, the Paymaster General mutters a lot from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.891.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Alleged abuse!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "s of the scheme. She should have been a little less triumphant. In the Standing Committee that considered the 2004 Finance Bill, my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Prisk) asked her \"to clarify what is included as eligible equipment.\" That was two years ago. If the Paymaster General had given an answer in 2004, she might have been able to prevent the two years of abuse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-02", "file": "debates2006-05-02b.xml", "sha256": "612f42c10eb8d318", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.933.2", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Brooks Newmark", "preceding_text": "It says nothing here, actually.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-02b.933.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cfff5998c784deaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.962.5", "colnum": "962", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "Let me make it clear that when the Prime Minister produces his proposals, we will obviously consider them in detail, but in the past nine years, we have had dozens of pieces of law and order legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.962.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cfff5998c784deaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": " case with those who are deported. I should add that I will also consult on proposals to achieve a more coherent approach to taking criminality into account in decisions on who is allowed into the country, who is allowed to stay, who is granted settlement and who can acquire British citizenship. These are significant proposals which, as I said earlier, we have been preparing for some months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cfff5998c784deaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "e controversial, but I hope that, unlike with some previous legislation in this area, we can rely on the full-hearted support of both the main Opposition parties in ensuring that foreign nationals who commit crimes are deported rapidly to the countries from which they come. This has been an unedifying episode for all of us in the Home Office who are charged with the protection of the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cfff5998c784deaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "iling to catch criminals, but by releasing over 1,000 criminals from their own prisons without consideration. Ministers have lost control of their Departments, and they have introduced a new doctrine of ministerial responsibility—the bigger one's mistake, the more one deserves to stay in one's job. The Home Secretary has tried to make a virtue of the fact that he has told us the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cfff5998c784deaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.973.2", "colnum": "973", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Home Secretary tried to make a virtue of the fact that he has told us the facts. In truth, however, he was forced by the Public Accounts Committee to admit to his failure, and he was dragged to the House to answer for it, both last week and today. We now know that he did not even tell the Prime Minister—who, I see, is giving his usual support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.973.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cfff5998c784deaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": " and the public, will expect eight answers. Before I do so, however, let me say that of course I applaud any action that will address the problem, although much of it amounts to bolting the prison door after the prisoners have fled. I understand that the Home Secretary intends to introduce new powers to create a presumption of deportation for foreign criminals. I applaud that intention, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cfff5998c784deaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "am, the previous chief inspector of prisons—that of 1,500 prisoners who have no nationality record, or a false record. How many people in that category have been released into the community without consideration for deportation in the last seven years? Again, is the Home Secretary persuaded that this oversight has not unnecessarily jeopardised the safety of the British public? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "cfff5998c784deaa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"David Cameron.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "ED that they seek, how would those changes be implemented in the time gap between the passing of the Finance Bill—if it is passed—and the subsequent laying of regulations before Parliament? Other questions follow. Is it right that a multimillionaire driving a polluting vehicle and living in a mansion should pay a reduced rate of VED on that vehicle if he registered it before 23 March ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.956.9", "colnum": "956", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "Wales receives just 4.5 per cent. of sport-related lottery funding. That is less than our population share and the lowest figure of all the lottery distributors. Will the Secretary of State guarantee that our share will not fall even further as a result of the £1.5 billion of lottery funding to be used to pay for the London Olympics?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.956.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.959.4", "colnum": "959", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can, for the reason that I have just given. The whole number of cases being considered increased. The right hon. Gentleman's suggestion that somehow the system was changed and weakened by the Home Secretary is wrong. About 1,500 prisoners are being deported a year. If we go back, not just over the period of this Government, but over the past couple of decades—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.959.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.959.4", "colnum": "959", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ecretary is wrong. About 1,500 prisoners are being deported a year. If we go back, not just over the period of this Government, but over the past couple of decades— [Interruption.] I say this not in excuse or mitigation but to show that the system has had faults from the beginning. If, for example, we take the time when the right hon. Gentleman was a special adviser at the Home Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.959.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.960.1", "colnum": "960", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " offence and who is a foreign national is deported. I just remind the right hon. Gentleman that, when this Government introduced a provision in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 to say that anybody convicted of any offence carrying more than two years' imprisonment should not be eligible for asylum and therefore could be deported, his party opposed that amendment. In addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.960.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.962.5", "colnum": "962", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "Let me make it clear that when the Prime Minister produces his proposals, we will obviously consider them in detail, but in the past nine years we have had dozens of pieces of law and order legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.962.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "For the very reason that I have just given to the Leader of the Opposition and others, this is not a problem created by this Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.964.2", "colnum": "964", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Geraldine Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Especially this one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geraldine Smith", "preceding_text": "The Home Office is a huge Department covering crime, antisocial behaviour, drugs, prisons, international terrorism and people trafficking—all sorts of issues. It is mission impossible for almost any Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.964.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is wrong. That is not the reason. Over the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "That is wrong. That is not the reason. Over the time— [Interruption.] I am very glad that the right hon. and learned Gentleman got to his feet, because I will remind him of what actually happened when he was Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.968.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.968.5", "colnum": "968", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Before the Human Rights Act, the right hon. and learned Gentleman did not deport all foreign prisoners, did he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.968.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Deportation and Removals", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": " case with those who are deported. I should add that I will also consult on proposals to achieve a more coherent approach to taking criminality into account in decisions on who is allowed into the country, who is allowed to stay, who is granted settlement and who can acquire British citizenship. These are significant proposals which, as I said earlier, we have been preparing for some months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.969.5", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Deportation and Removals", "cue_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Clarke", "preceding_text": "e controversial, but I hope that, unlike with some previous legislation in this area, we can rely on the full-hearted support of both the main Opposition parties in ensuring that foreign nationals who commit crimes are deported rapidly to the countries from which they come. This has been an unedifying episode for all of us in the Home Office who are charged with the protection of the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.969.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Deportation and Removals", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "ailing to catch criminals, but by releasing over 1,000 criminals from their own prisons without consideration. Ministers have lost control of their Departments and they have introduced a new doctrine of ministerial responsibility—the bigger one's mistake, the more one deserves to stay in one's job. The Home Secretary has tried to make a virtue of the fact that he has told us the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Deportation and Removals", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": " and the public, will expect eight answers. Before I do so, however, let me say that of course I applaud any action that will address the problem, although much of it amounts to bolting the prison door after the prisoners have fled. I understand that the Home Secretary intends to introduce new powers to create a presumption of deportation for foreign criminals. I applaud that intention, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Deportation and Removals", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "am, the previous chief inspector of prisons—that of 1,500 prisoners who have no nationality record, or a false record. How many people in that category have been released into the community without consideration for deportation in the past seven years? Again, is the Home Secretary persuaded that this oversight has not unnecessarily jeopardised the safety of the British public? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "PART 7", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "in key conditions or cases where clear abusive activity has taken place. Companies will be able to participate in the regime from 1 January 2007 , subject to meeting all the necessary conditions and paying an entry charge equal to 2 per cent. of the value of their property assets. I should like to deal now, Sir Michael, with the Opposition amendments proposed by the hon. Member for Rayleigh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.1046.4", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "PART 7", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "has anything to add he is welcome to intervene on me. This has been a useful start to our discussion on the concept of REITs, which are a principal component of the Bill. Most contributions to the debate were well informed, but I am afraid that I must make an exception for the hon. Member for Falmouth and Camborne (Julia Goldsworthy) , as she took a side-swipe at the alternative investment market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.1046.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-03", "file": "debates2006-05-03b.xml", "sha256": "45c779cbd70241b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "PART 7", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"David Cameron.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "ED that they seek, how would those changes be implemented in the time gap between the passing of the Finance Bill—if it is passed—and the subsequent laying of regulations before Parliament? Other questions follow. Is it right that a multimillionaire driving a polluting vehicle and living in a mansion should pay a reduced rate of VED on that vehicle if he registered it before 23 March ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-03b.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04b.xml", "sha256": "64960a5cef21836a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04b.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "rgh, East (Dr. Strang) . The issue that he raised is common to a number of constituencies. There are similar facilities in Inverness. Many of the problems that he described will be familiar to other hon. Members. I welcome the opportunity to hold this debate. The Minister was right to say in opening that there has been a great deal of cross-party consensus on the issues that we are debating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04b.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04b.xml", "sha256": "64960a5cef21836a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04b.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "ember for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr. Clarke) . In her opening speech the Minister paid tribute to Alf Morris, to whom the House owes a debt of gratitude. To paraphrase the late Ian MacLeod, a debate on disabilities without the contribution or presence of the right hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill would be a bit like a production of \"Hamlet\" without the gravediggers .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04b.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04b.xml", "sha256": "64960a5cef21836a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04b.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "logical condition that causes children to suffer from varying degrees of short-term memory loss or concentration. It is becoming far more common place among young people, partly, I suspect, because it has only relatively recently been recognised and understood as a problem. We have known about dyslexia for far longer. I find it staggering that I have been a Member of this House for 19 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04b.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04b.xml", "sha256": "64960a5cef21836a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04b.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "ing people back to work. I notice that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, South (Miss Begg) said, the life chances report was cross-departmental. Four Departments have been involved in drafting an excellent report. Not surprisingly, the one Department whose name is not on it is the Treasury. I say that not as a criticism—I am second to none in my admiration for the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04b.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04b.xml", "sha256": "64960a5cef21836a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04b.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "annot apply for DLA, which means that they cannot obtain the DLA mobility component. Without the DLA mobility component, they cannot apply for the Motability scheme, which means that they suffer because of age discrimination. I am aware that to remove age discrimination for DLA completely would be an expensive business, and there is no point my standing here and pretending that I do not know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04b.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "187fa0fb09623c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "Right. I am shocked that my hon. Friend has got hold of our secret list of potential sites, including—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1090.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "187fa0fb09623c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1113.0", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Bernard Jenkin", "preceding_text": " have not been effected and the PTA is being challenged in the courts under the Human Rights Act, may we have a debate on the latter's operation? All hon. Members believe in human rights but many of us also believe that the House should determine those rights in relation to the national interest and not have them decided by an external jurisdiction that may not have the national interest at heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1112.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "187fa0fb09623c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "DISABLED PEOPLE", "cue_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McGuire", "preceding_text": "om the labour market. In that report, we explicitly set out our belief in the right of disabled people to work, and I know that hon. Friends and colleagues will welcome some discussion of that key element of our strategy. However, before I begin that discussion, I want to spend a few moments reflecting on the position just under 10 years ago, not to seek to embarrass the official Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "187fa0fb09623c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "DISABLED PEOPLE", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "rgh, East (Dr. Strang) . The issue that he raised is common to a number of constituencies. There are similar facilities in Inverness. Many of the problems that he described will be familiar to other hon. Members. I welcome the opportunity to hold this debate. The Minister was right to say in opening that there has been a great deal of cross-party consensus on the issues that we are debating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "187fa0fb09623c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "DISABLED PEOPLE", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "mber for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill (Mr. Clarke) . In her opening speech the Minister paid tribute to Alf Morris, to whom the House owes a debt of gratitude. To paraphrase the late Iain Macleod, a debate on disabilities without the contribution or presence of the right hon. Member for Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill would be a bit like a production of \"Hamlet\" without the gravediggers .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "187fa0fb09623c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "DISABLED PEOPLE", "cue_speaker": "Simon Burns", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Burns", "preceding_text": "logical condition that causes children to suffer from varying degrees of short-term memory loss or concentration. It is becoming far more common place among young people, partly, I suspect, because it has only relatively recently been recognised and understood as a problem. We have known about dyslexia for far longer. I find it staggering that I have been a Member of this House for 19 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "187fa0fb09623c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "DISABLED PEOPLE", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "ing people back to work. I notice that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, South (Miss Begg) said, the life chances report was cross-departmental. Four Departments have been involved in drafting an excellent report. Not surprisingly, the one Department whose name is not on it is the Treasury. I say that not as a criticism—I am second to none in my admiration for the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "187fa0fb09623c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "DISABLED PEOPLE", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "annot apply for DLA, which means that they cannot obtain the DLA mobility component. Without the DLA mobility component, they cannot apply for the Motability scheme, which means that they suffer because of age discrimination. I am aware that to remove age discrimination for DLA completely would be an expensive business, and there is no point my standing here and pretending that I do not know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-04", "file": "debates2006-05-04c.xml", "sha256": "187fa0fb09623c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "DISABLED PEOPLE", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that clarification. If we misinterpreted the Minister's remarks, apologies are due. However, I hope that in her closing remarks she will take on board the fact that there is consensus, as was eloquently stated by the hon. Member for Kingswood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-04c.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7364028ce4806bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": "initiative. The Government recently admitted that their domestic target of reducing emissions by 20 per cent. by 2010 will not be reached. The Conservative Government cut emissions of carbon dioxide by 7 per cent. in their last seven years in office, but CO 2 emissions are higher now than they were nine years ago. Aviation on its own explains why they have risen since the Government came to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7364028ce4806bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.74.1", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "preceding_text": " noise insulation criterion that we have proposed as part of the consultation on night flying restrictions at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports relates to the 90 dB sound exposure level footprint of the noisiest aircraft operating at each airport. Such noise insulation seeks to mitigate the impact of each flight, as do the noise quota limits, by encouraging the use of quieter aircraft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.74.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7364028ce4806bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.81.4", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "preceding_text": "thin which a non-designated airport's noise control scheme shall apply. It has become apparent to us that although subsection (5) lists a number of specific statutory consultees, including the CAA, the operator of the airport, local authorities and organisations representing the interests of local people, the operators of aircraft that use the airport are not included on the list. The first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.81.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7364028ce4806bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Future EU Finances and Own Resources", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": " but we shall get back only half as much. Per capita EU spending in the UK will be a quarter of the figure in Ireland and will be lower than in any of the other, soon to be 27, member states. Remarkably, the expensive new Foreign Office booklet, \"Guide to the European Union\", which cost taxpayers a further £80,000 to produce, notes that the existing net cost is £3 billion a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7364028ce4806bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Future EU Finances and Own Resources", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "That may be so. My hon. Friend has a very principled position on these issues. He wants to withdraw the United Kingdom from the EU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7364028ce4806bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.101.4", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Future EU Finances and Own Resources", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I know that my hon. Friend is speaking in the blunt Glasgow tones that he has always used, but we have stuffed nobody's mouth with gold. The deal was the one that we entered into as the champions of enlargement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7364028ce4806bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.121.2", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Future EU Finances and Own Resources", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "s and help to develop that economy to our own advantage, but that does not stop us trading with the rest of the world. It is not an either/or situation. Let us do both. Let us recognise that we are an international nation. What concerns me about Opposition Members is that, all too often, what they are saying, when we scrape away all the economic veneer is basically a very crude form of xenophobia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.121.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7364028ce4806bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Future EU Finances and Own Resources", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "Unemployment is going down; gross domestic product is going up, but the important thing to recognise is that, in the Government's extremely skilful negotiations, they were able to ensure that the figures used by the European Commission were a little out of date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7364028ce4806bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Future EU Finances and Own Resources", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": " of EU funding. I do not believe in moaning about EU funding, because I have seen the positive benefits that it can bring. I encourage Administrations of all political colours to make the most of it. I cannot stand political cant. We hear that things should be done, but people with political responsibility who could do something about them do not even turn up to important meetings to discuss them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "7364028ce4806bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.138.2", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Future EU Finances and Own Resources", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "This will not be a rant about the venality of the prevailing orthodoxy in the British media. Everyone is currently recalling the words of Enoch Powell, who said that all political careers end in failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08a.138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08c.xml", "sha256": "2ac8e161bd9725bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08c.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": " initiative. The Government recently admitted that their domestic target of reducing emissions by 20 per cent. by 2010 will not be reached. The Conservative Government cut emissions of carbon dioxide by 7 per cent. in their last seven years in office, but CO2 emissions are higher now than they were nine years ago. Aviation on its own explains why they have risen since the Government came to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08c.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.43.2", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julian Brazier", "preceding_text": " initiative. The Government recently admitted that their domestic target of reducing emissions by 20 per cent. by 2010 will not be reached. The Conservative Government cut emissions of carbon dioxide by 7 per cent. in their last seven years in office, but CO2 emissions are higher now than they were nine years ago. Aviation on its own explains why they have risen since the Government came to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.43.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "preceding_text": " noise insulation criterion that we have proposed as part of the consultation on night flying restrictions at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports relates to the 90 dB sound exposure level footprint of the noisiest aircraft operating at each airport. Such noise insulation seeks to mitigate the impact of each flight, as do the noise quota limits, by encouraging the use of quieter aircraft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.78.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You can stop now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "preceding_text": "give to relief from noise. We expect that the study, which has been guided by the steering group of a wide range of interests including environmental organisations who are represented, to be completed by about the middle of the year. The work is divided into two phases. Phase 1 has now been completed and has developed a stated preference methodology by carrying out a number of pilot surveys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.85.4", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Derek Twigg", "preceding_text": "ithin which a non-designated airport's noise control scheme shall apply. It has become apparent to us that although subsection (5) lists a number of specific statutory consultees, including the CAA, the operator ofthe airport, local authorities and organisations representing the interests of local people, the operators of aircraft that use the airport are not included on the list. The first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.85.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.98.1", "colnum": "98", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": ", but we shall get back only half as much. Per capita EU spending in the UK will be a quarter of the figure in Ireland and will be lower than in any of the other, soon to be 27, member states. Remarkably, the expensive new Foreign Office booklet, \"Guide to the European Union\", which cost taxpayers a further £80,000 to produce, notes thatthe existing net cost is £3 billion a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.98.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "That may be so. My hon. Friend has a very principled position on these issues. He wants to withdraw the United Kingdom from the EU—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.105.5", "colnum": "105", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I know that my hon. Friend is speaking in the blunt Glasgow tones that he has always used, but we have stuffed nobody's mouth with gold. The deal was the one that we entered into as the champions of enlargement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh, come on.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "s and help to develop that economy to our own advantage, but that does not stop us trading with the rest of the world. It is not an either/or situation. Let us do both. Let us recognise that we are an international nation. What concerns me about Opposition Members is that, all too often, what they are saying, when we scrape away all the economic veneer is basically a very crude form of xenophobia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Wayne David", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Wayne David", "preceding_text": "Unemployment is going down; gross domestic product is going up, but the important thing to recognise is that, in the Government's extremely skilful negotiations, they were able to ensure that the figures used by the European Commission were a little out of date —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.129.3", "colnum": "129", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus Robertson", "preceding_text": "t of EU funding. I do not believe in moaning about EU funding, because I have seen the positive benefits that it can bring. I encourage Administrations of all political colours to make the most of it. I cannot stand political cant. We hear that things should be done, but people with political responsibility who could do something about them do not even turn up to important meetings to discussthem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.129.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-08", "file": "debates2006-05-08e.xml", "sha256": "75c17a668718a03b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "PRESS REGULATION", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "This will not be a rant about the venality of the prevailing orthodoxy in the British media. Everyone is currently recalling the words of Enoch Powell, who said that all political careers end in failure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-08e.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "2796a0a37df76998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09a.159.3", "colnum": "159", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "The high-profile initiative nationwide to collect outstanding fines has been noticed by my Stafford constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "2796a0a37df76998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09a.177.2", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Management of the National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Ann Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Coffey", "preceding_text": "I want to return to what the hon. Gentleman said about payment by results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09a.177.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "2796a0a37df76998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Management of the National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "tand on these issues. I have here a copy of the letter sent by the leader of the Conservative party to his colleagues. In summary, it says, \"They don't trust us on the NHS; we'd better do something about it. Let's join leagues of friends. Let's have some Opposition day debates. Let's do some visits. Let's try to deal with the terrible reputation we have on the NHS.\" Well, that will not wash—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09a.194.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "2796a0a37df76998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09a.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Management of the National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "urnaround in the Department of Health. When I was in opposition, I sat on those Benches and demanded that the Conservative Government of the day save jobs in the NHS. Now, some Conservative Members are doing the same thing. That is the biggest turnaround in my experience of this House, although the difference is that there are now 300,000 more jobs in the health service than when they left office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09a.202.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "2796a0a37df76998", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09a.229.5", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day] — Management of the National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "preceding_text": "ses. The also include those with the most babies with low birth weight, the least access to primary care, the lowest incomes and the least access to cars. The area also has the largest black and ethnic minority population. For all those reasons, I felt that having the critical care hospital at St. Helier was the best way to reduce health inequalities. The public consultation seemed to agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09a.229.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "7e444734e7e65838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "preceding_text": "ses. The also include those with the most babies with low birth weight, the least access to primary care, the lowest incomes and the least access to cars. The area also has the largest black and ethnic minority population. For all those reasons, I felt that having the critical care hospital at St. Helier was the best way to reduce health inequalities. The public consultation seemed to agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "7e444734e7e65838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "hich deserves an answer. We are entitled to expect results from consultants, but should such an expectation be included in their contract? There is a proper argument to be had about what should be included in the contract, and in my view, we should be able to demand certain outcomes from consultants. On the other hand, there are those who criticise the Government for insisting on certain outcomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "7e444734e7e65838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": " to demand certain outcomes from consultants. On the other hand, there are those who criticise the Government for insisting on certain outcomes. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Romsey shakes her head. Perhaps she is not among those critics, but Conservative Members certainly have made such criticisms. They say that the medical profession should decide for itself how it operates its businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "7e444734e7e65838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": " needs, in particular, to be treated in their own homes by a community nurse or a community psychiatric nurse. Such decisions are the appropriate ones to take, but there are more difficult and demanding ones. Sometimes, the clinical need is not clear, and the community take a different view on what should be delivered from that taken by the PCT, the hospital trust or even the Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "7e444734e7e65838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": " am sorry to have to tell him that his friend, who stood and won, has now lost her seat. I am grateful to him for bringing to the House's attention the fate of his own party and of the Liberal Democrats. The independent candidate to whom I referred earlier won her seat fighting on a ticket of opposition to NHS cuts. It is easy to utter slogans about health, but it is not a responsible thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "7e444734e7e65838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "ere is not only one point of view or one way of delivering excellence. That is fine, if the community backs the eventual decision. If everybody in my community demanded a midwife-led unit, I would not blame them for doing so, because it could be an excellent move. However, if it were introduced against the wishes of the community, we would have a problem, because it would be set up to fail —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "7e444734e7e65838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.246.6", "colnum": "246", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman needs to think again about how he presents his argument —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.246.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09c.xml", "sha256": "7e444734e7e65838", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.246.6", "colnum": "246", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "ent inquiry into the issue. PCTs must take their responsibility for their communities seriously. They are charged with the duty of consulting properly. In this case, no fewer than 100,000 people—assuming that people signed only one of the petitions—made their views known, and if the PCT does not take account of that, it should look closely at the way in which it makes decisions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09c.246.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, the hon. and learned Member for Redcar (Vera Baird) , to her ministerial post. Her appointment is well deserved. There are some who are calling the team \"Charlie's Angels\", but not me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Under-Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, the hon. and learned Member for Redcar (Vera Baird) , to her ministerial post. Her appointment is well deserved. There are some who are calling the team \"Charlie's Angels\", but not me. [Interruption.] I am a new man and my remark was not mean to be patronising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Kidney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Kidney", "preceding_text": "The high-profile initiative nationwide to collect outstanding fines has been noticed by my Stafford constituents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.168.3", "colnum": "168", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "May I also welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his new post and say how much I welcome the fact that he is so evidently excited by the unique responsibility that he now has to protect the House from his colleagues in the Executive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.169.0", "colnum": "169", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his warm welcome. At the risk of appearing to mix it with the Liberal Democrats, which I rarely do, may I suggest that it would help to facilitate September sittings if the Liberal Democrats changed the time of their conference—or even abolished it altogether?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who says that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "the Secretary of State took up her job, she said that she would listen to patients and staff. She visited five hospitals in five weeks, and then for eight months failed to visit any hospital outside London at all. Is it any wonder that she lives on a different planet from the staff of the NHS? When she says that it is the best year ever for the NHS, they say, \"Has she any idea of what's going on?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.178.7", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I can certainly tell the hon. Gentleman what the Government think. The Secretary of State has reported to the Cabinet that she expects to miss her cancer waiting targets. I can tell the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.178.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.178.7", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I can certainly tell the hon. Gentleman what the Government think. The Secretary of State has reported to the Cabinet that she expects to miss her cancer waiting targets. I can tell the hon. Gentleman— [Interruption.] If he cares to listen, I will tell him. The waiting time for curative radiotherapy has lengthened under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.178.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.183.2", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ann Coffey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Coffey", "preceding_text": "I want to return to what the hon. Gentleman said about payment by results—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.186.1", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "She did .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.198.8", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fiona Mactaggart", "preceding_text": "onstituency are that important services for my constituents, such as their mental health services, are being seriously affected to deal with the imbalance in the funding in the strategic health authority. Yet the voices that are noisiest in the Chamber, and often noisiest in the community, are those of privilege. What will my right hon. Friend do in future to protect those whose health is poorest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.198.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.198.9", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an enormously important point. We are prepared to ask only the organisations that are in balance or even surplus to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.198.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "tand on these issues. I have here a copy of the letter sent by the leader of the Conservative party to his colleagues. In summary, it says, \"They don't trust us on the NHS; we'd better do something about it. Let's join leagues of friends. Let's have some Opposition day debates. Let's do some visits. Let's try to deal with the terrible reputation we have on the NHS.\" Well, that will not wash—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.200.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "urnaround in the Department of Health. When I was in opposition, I sat on those Benches and demanded that the Conservative Government of the day save jobs in the NHS. Now, some Conservative Members are doing the same thing. That is the biggest turnaround in my experience of this House, although the difference is that there are now 300,000 more jobs in the health service than when they left office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "iven them increased budgets year on year for at least the last six years. In 1998-99 there were 201,000 cataract operations; in 2004 there were 306,000—a 52 per cent. increase. There was a 78 per cent. increase in heart operations over the same period, and an increase of 22 per cent. in the number of hip operations and 11 per cent. in the number of kidney transplants. The list goes on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.210.1", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "e that anger, but we get it from the top sometimes. We got it from the Royal College of Nursing, which, as I said in the media, was involved in a disgraceful attack—an attack on freedom of speech more than anything else. I remember standing on picket lines with health service workers, when there were 85,000 fewer nurses in our health service, because they were getting hammered at that time .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.210.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.236.1", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "preceding_text": "es. They also include those with the most babies with low birth weight, the least access to primary care, the lowest incomes and the least access to cars. The area also has the largest black and ethnic minority population. For all those reasons, I felt that having the critical care hospital at St. Helier was the best way to reduce health inequalities. The public consultation seemed to agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.236.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Siobhain McDonagh", "preceding_text": "Madam Deputy Speaker, the Conservatives do not like to hear the truth, but I will continue with this speech and I will not be abused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is trying to have her cake and eat it, as ever, but that is the Liberal Democrat way, is it not? It is important —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "hich deserves an answer. We are entitled to expect results from consultants, but should such an expectation be included in their contract? There is a proper argument to be had about what should be included in the contract, and in my view, we should be able to demand certain outcomes from consultants. On the other hand, there are those who criticise the Government for insisting on certain outcomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": " to demand certain outcomes from consultants. On the other hand, there are those who criticise the Government for insisting on certain outcomes. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Romsey shakes her head. Perhaps she is not among those critics, but Conservative Members certainly have made such criticisms. They say that the medical profession should decide for itself how it operates its businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.243.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-09", "file": "debates2006-05-09e.xml", "sha256": "bd1ad4fecfa50c1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": " am sorry to have to tell him that his friend, who stood and won, has now lost her seat. I am grateful to him for bringing to the House's attention the fate of his own party and of the Liberal Democrats. The independent candidate to whom I referred earlier won her seat fighting on a ticket of opposition to NHS cuts. It is easy to utter slogans about health, but it is not a responsible thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-09e.243.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-10", "file": "debates2006-05-10e.xml", "sha256": "6b1d5d27e47a46c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.315.4", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have not received any such notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.315.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-10", "file": "debates2006-05-10e.xml", "sha256": "6b1d5d27e47a46c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Byrne", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to second-guess the Prime Minister's motives on anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-10", "file": "debates2006-05-10e.xml", "sha256": "6b1d5d27e47a46c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Tami", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Tami", "preceding_text": "Given that the hon. Gentleman is very keen on referendums, can he tell us how many the Tories have held at national or local level over the years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-10", "file": "debates2006-05-10e.xml", "sha256": "6b1d5d27e47a46c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You should have been here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "I have been watching the debate from the comfort of my office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-10", "file": "debates2006-05-10e.xml", "sha256": "6b1d5d27e47a46c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Maples", "preceding_text": "t is important that we get it right, because Governments of different political colours will have to live with the arrangement—there was a royal commission and all the different options were studied. I do not know whether we came to the right conclusion, but nobody could pretend that there was not a full consultation and examination of the alternatives, which there has not been in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.343.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-10", "file": "debates2006-05-10e.xml", "sha256": "6b1d5d27e47a46c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "sold short the interests of the citizens of this country, in comparison with those of another. [Interruption.] The Minister of State, Department of Health, the hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) , says from a sedentary position that my observation is nonsense, but he or his hon. Friends will have to demonstrate why. This is clearly an entirely one-sided treaty. In fact, the then Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-10", "file": "debates2006-05-10e.xml", "sha256": "6b1d5d27e47a46c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "s of its constitution the USA cannot set its evidential standard any lower than 'probable cause'.\"—[ Official Report, Third Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, 15 December 2003 ; c. 7.] So on that day, the hon. Lady made no secret of the fact that there was an imbalance in the treaty, yet the hon. Gentleman says that that view is nonsense. The House will come to its own conclusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-10", "file": "debates2006-05-10e.xml", "sha256": "6b1d5d27e47a46c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "I was arguing for a diversity of views in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-10e.462.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc00e6a943ff4869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": " the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on her new housing development policy, and particularly on why my constituents and those of other hon. Members will not be allowed to object to overdevelopment whereas her constituents will be? We could then ask her what the Government have learned from the recent council elections, which of course saw Labour loose 319 councillors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc00e6a943ff4869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Confident Consumers", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I am happy to do so, together with the Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar and Canning Town (Jim Fitzpatrick) , who deals with employment rights. The issues are covered by the legislation on the national minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc00e6a943ff4869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Confident Consumers", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "ed end to end 18 weeks from seeing your GP to having a successful operation. We have made that promise, and it will happen. In the interim, across Britain, you now have a choice to go to another hospital if you cannot get the service at your local one. That includes if necessary attending a private hospital as an NHS patient, receiving treatment free at the point of use based on your medical need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "cc00e6a943ff4869", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Confident Consumers", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": ", but I think that I have responded to it. The Government are spending millions of pounds at both local and national level, and will continue to do so. I shall not read out the stuff on package travel for the hon. Member for Wellingborough, as I got diverted. However, I shall write to him with the details, which I shall place in the Library for other colleagues to see. Finally, I turn to my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11a.577.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11c.xml", "sha256": "96d3faaf26a3b990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11c.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "t Herceptin. It might be a written ministerial statement, but I accept that an issue was raised on Wednesday, and I listened to the debate. The right hon. Lady's point about my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, is ridiculous, if she will allow me to say that. The criticism of my right hon. Friend has been that she has represented her constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11c.508.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11c.xml", "sha256": "96d3faaf26a3b990", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11c.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "CONFIDENT CONSUMERS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": ", but I think that I have responded to it. The Government are spending millions of pounds at both local and national level, and will continue to do so. I shall not read out the stuff on package travel for the hon. Member for Wellingborough, as I got diverted. However, I shall write to him with the details, which I shall place in the Library for other colleagues to see. Finally, I turn to my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11c.589.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11e.xml", "sha256": "143c146b43fc0871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11e.508.2", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ut Herceptin. It might be a written ministerial statement, but I accept that an issue was raised on Wednesday, and I listened to the debate. The right hon. Lady's point about my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government is ridiculous, if she will allow me to say that. The criticism of my right hon. Friend has been that she has represented her constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11e.508.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11e.xml", "sha256": "143c146b43fc0871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11e.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I will give way, but are you going to withdraw your policy on abolishing the DTI?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11e.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11e.xml", "sha256": "143c146b43fc0871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11e.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I am happy to do so, together with the Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, my hon. Friend the Member for Poplar and Canning Town (Jim Fitzpatrick) , who deals with employment rights. The issues are covered by the legislation on the national minimum wage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11e.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11e.xml", "sha256": "143c146b43fc0871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11e.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I probably did not explain my original point fully—I was talking about the customer, not the company. Assaults on shop workers are, I hope, rarely committed by their employer; it is not a good motivational technique in the modern world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11e.581.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-11", "file": "debates2006-05-11e.xml", "sha256": "143c146b43fc0871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11e.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": ", but I think that I have responded to it. The Government are spending millions of pounds at both local and national level, and will continue to do so. I shall not read out the stuff on package travel for the hon. Member for Wellingborough, as I got diverted. However, I shall write to him with the details, which I shall place in the Library for other colleagues to see. Finally, I turn to my—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-11e.589.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-15", "file": "debates2006-05-15b.xml", "sha256": "83a29e97acc01a6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-15b.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "New Clause 19 — POWER TO REMOVE OR REDUCE BURDENS", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McFadden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McFadden", "preceding_text": "ber for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) for his good wishes. Let me begin by thanking my friend and predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for East Renfrewshire (Mr. Murphy) , for his hard work in taking this Bill through its Second Reading and Committee stages. I know that it has been a great wrench for him to have to leave this Bill to take up his new post in the Department for Work and Pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-15b.712.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-15", "file": "debates2006-05-15d.xml", "sha256": "31b86ade999009be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-15d.712.0", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McFadden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McFadden", "preceding_text": "ber for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) for his good wishes. Let me begin by thanking my friend and predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for East Renfrewshire (Mr. Murphy) , for his hard work in taking this Bill through its Second Reading and Committee stages. I know that it has been a great wrench for him to have to leave this Bill to take up his new post in the Department for Work and Pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-15d.712.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-15", "file": "debates2006-05-15d.xml", "sha256": "31b86ade999009be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-15d.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McFadden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McFadden", "preceding_text": "Clause 5 states: \"Provision under section 2(1) may not impose or increase taxation.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-15d.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-15", "file": "debates2006-05-15d.xml", "sha256": "31b86ade999009be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-15d.727.3", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "We are grateful to the Minister for setting out the effect of these significant new clauses and amendments. We particularly welcome new clause 19, which is a major climbdown; combined with the other new clauses and amendments, it is definitely a step in the right direction. But as will become clear during our debate—you would expect this of any good Oliver, Mr. Speaker—we want more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-15d.727.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-15", "file": "debates2006-05-15d.xml", "sha256": "31b86ade999009be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-15d.772.2", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "a member of the Law Society of England and Wales, which is a regulated body and therefore might be affected by the Bill. I heard earlier, and have heard since returning to the Chamber following meetings, a lot of wounded outrage from Opposition Members, particularly Conservatives. Having sat through most of the Second Reading debate, my recollection is that at its conclusion there was no Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-15d.772.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-16", "file": "debates2006-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "2789024abb11d98e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-16d.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Bail?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " PCT is similar to mine in many respects, being in a former mining area. I agree that the money to which he has referred is vital in an area such as Barnsley, just as such funding is needed in my constituency to improve public health and preventive care, so I understand entirely what he is saying. This is about putting in place a fair regime in the NHS, so that those organisations that bail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-16d.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-16", "file": "debates2006-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "2789024abb11d98e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-16d.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen O'Brien", "preceding_text": "o regard the Government's consultation as a sham. Constant change will undermine what has already been achieved; for example, by turning round the East Anglian ambulance trust. The Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire service is about to complete the process of splitting; now they will have to go through the upheaval of being merged again. We are not against the restructuring of PCTs per se—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-16d.852.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-16", "file": "debates2006-05-16d.xml", "sha256": "2789024abb11d98e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-16d.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Miller", "preceding_text": "Given the Minister's experience over the past 24 hours, he probably wants to move on rapidly, like his predecessor, despite his sterling work. A ministerial undertaking is understood by this House to be binding on the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-16d.901.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17b.xml", "sha256": "4b482e9866e340d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17b.1097.2", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "'PART A1 — DEPARTMENT IN THE CHARGE OF MINISTER APPROVED BY RESOLUTION OF ASSEMBLY", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Belfast agreement.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me for two minutes. I will try to keep my word, although I did not give it. I was surprised by the remarks of the hon. Member for South Down (Mr. McGrady) . He has been preaching for a very long time that we must all bow to the Anglo-Irish agreement, which he says is the great test. The Anglo-Irish agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17b.1097.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "es Gateway. For the first time, we are seeing major housing, infrastructure and community development there. There have also been many developments in many other communities, and we have notified the House about them. I will be judged on the basis of my record, rather than the hon. Gentleman's rhetoric. As to my salary, I have already pointed out that I am doing far more than Lord Heseltine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dari Taylor", "preceding_text": "Renewal, neighbourhood renewal, regeneration and social housing have always been central to the Deputy Prime Minister's delivery in the House and the country. In his new role, may I ask whether he is still going to have a hands-on role in these areas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It sounds like a sixth-form public school rally. Yes, I can tell my hon. Friend that we will continue to play an active part in those matters. One of the Cabinet Committees that I will be involved with is housing and planning, whichis important in meeting the housing needs of this country. I noticed that there was a great deal of laughing about my proposal to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask the House to quieten down again. With all the noise in the Chamber, hon. Members are making the situation difficult for me as Speaker. I ask for the House's help and co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.988.10", "colnum": "988", "heading": "DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a new Member of the House. He may not remember that under previous Administrations, there was no ministerial code.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.988.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs an urgent question on water shortages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1006.3", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Greg Hands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Hands", "preceding_text": "Exactly five years ago —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1006.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1020.5", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "ch he referred to the triple lock on the devolution of policing and justice. He stated: \"It requires across community votes in the Assembly\"— that is precisely what he said. He went on to say that \"it then requires a Secretary of State to agree it, and Parliament to approve the necessary legislation.\" At no stage was there any reference to the First and Deputy First Ministers acting jointly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1020.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1032.5", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "d to Northern Ireland will put such powers in the hands of the Assembly, where there is now a mountain to climb. The criterion that we have consistently adopted is that we could not be in government with those who are linked to parties involved in paramilitary and criminal activity. Out of the blue, the hon. Lady's party has decided to put itself in that position, having condemned Sinn Fein—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1032.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1041.2", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "and is an extremely effective witness, but he did rather equivocate last week. One after another, hon. Members asked whether the acceptance of the rule of law and support for the police should not be preconditions of participation in government. The transcript shows that the Secretary of State did not give an unequivocal and binding answer, yet the new clause contains just such a commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1041.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "We will debate those matters in due course. If the hon. Gentleman, who holds the distinguished position of Chairman of the Select Committee on Northern Ireland Affairs, looks, as I know that he has done, at the pledge of office that is in place for Ministers, he will see that the very points that he makes are intrinsic in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISION", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "beral Democrats were provoked into supporting the new clause tabled by the DUP because he showed no willingness to show any empathy with a point that seemed utterly reasonable and which hon. Members made with sincerity. I do not want to have a go at the Minister—I think that he is a very nice man. I will be in his constituency in a few days' time, and I do not want him to be annoyed with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "'PART A1", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. We have had a positive debate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1090.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-17", "file": "debates2006-05-17d.xml", "sha256": "e09013d5801a62ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1097.2", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "'PART A1", "cue_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Belfast agreement.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me for two minutes. I will try to keep my word, although I did not give it. I was surprised by the remarks of the hon. Member for South Down (Mr. McGrady) . He has been preaching for a very long time that we must all bow to the Anglo-Irish agreement, which he says is the great test. The Anglo-Irish agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-17d.1097.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-18", "file": "debates2006-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "8dcd46ee2465cb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18c.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I know of the close friendship between the hon. Gentleman and Eric Forth. Both could often be found in the Tea Room talking about over-mighty Governments, particularly during the period of the Major Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18c.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-18", "file": "debates2006-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "8dcd46ee2465cb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18c.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There are plenty of occasions to debate that issue, but if the Opposition feel really exercised about it, they have a number of Opposition days coming up, which I am sure that they will put to good use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18c.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-18", "file": "debates2006-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "8dcd46ee2465cb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18c.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "mittee itself. It is the same arrangement as for a Select Committee. It does not involve a Chairmen's Panel nomination. So the usual channels ensure that, by some osmotic process, a name comes forward. That Member becomes a member of the Committee and—hey presto!—all other members of the Committee, by an entirely democratic free vote, approve that person. That seems to work fine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18c.1163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-18", "file": "debates2006-05-18c.xml", "sha256": "8dcd46ee2465cb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18c.1163.4", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "econd. Somebody outrageously suggested that places on hybrid and private Bill Committees are reserved for punishments by the Whips. I am sure that that is still true in the Conservative party; it is no longer true in the Labour party and the Government, because we now have a caring, sharing Whips Office that does everything by gentle persuasion. However, it certainly was true, as I remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18c.1163.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-18", "file": "debates2006-05-18e.xml", "sha256": "6d7bd37c9e286706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1123.2", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The National Farmers Union—the hon. Gentleman can visit its website—said that that was an excellent development and is working with us to ensure that every farmer gets their form in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-18", "file": "debates2006-05-18e.xml", "sha256": "6d7bd37c9e286706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1139.2", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ise when there will be a debate on the issue, but the energy review will be published and then, in due course, there will be a debate on this country's future energy needs, including the role that nuclear power should play. Let me point out to the hon. Gentleman that people forget that nuclear energy currently plays an extraordinarily important part in energy generation. It accounts for 75 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-18", "file": "debates2006-05-18e.xml", "sha256": "6d7bd37c9e286706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "There are plenty of occasions to debate that issue, but if the Opposition feel really exercised about it they have a number of Opposition days coming up, which I am sure that they will put to good use.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-18", "file": "debates2006-05-18e.xml", "sha256": "6d7bd37c9e286706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1161.3", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": "e would be paid as a prospective Standing Committee Chairman, which, by a resolution of the House, would depend on his experience in the role, but he would still receive considerably less than the rate of pay that is felt to be appropriate for a Select Committee Chairman. The anomaly is that this Bill Committee is described as a Select Committee but it is not a departmental Select Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-18", "file": "debates2006-05-18e.xml", "sha256": "6d7bd37c9e286706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1163.2", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "mittee itself. It is the same arrangement as for a Select Committee. It does not involve a Chairmen's Panel nomination. So the usual channels ensure that, by some osmotic process, a name comes forward. That Member becomes a member of the Committee and—hey presto!—all other members of the Committee, by an entirely democratic free vote, approve that person. That seems to work fine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-18", "file": "debates2006-05-18e.xml", "sha256": "6d7bd37c9e286706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1163.4", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "econd. Somebody outrageously suggested that places on hybrid and private Bill Committees are reserved for punishments by the Whips. I am sure that that is still true in the Conservative party; it is no longer true in the Labour party and the Government, because we now have a caring, sharing Whips Office that does everything by gentle persuasion. However, it certainly was true, as I remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-18e.1163.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22b.xml", "sha256": "fb58abc07078232a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22b.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Four months, I am reminded, and some of us were more assiduous than others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22b.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22b.xml", "sha256": "fb58abc07078232a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22b.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "n.] My hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) says from a sedentary position that he would have deserted. In the present circumstances, the Government would have welcomed that. When I saw the amendments and a press release issued by my hon. Friend, I was worried that we had missed something in the Bill. I was concerned that the civil servants had got one over on us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22b.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22b.xml", "sha256": "fb58abc07078232a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22b.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "Let me now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22b.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22b.xml", "sha256": "fb58abc07078232a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22b.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "Once again, the hon. Gentleman is trying to confuse the Committee—but it is he who is wholly confused about the issue. There is nothing in international law that has proven that there are currently, or have been in the past 10 years, British armed forces engaged in an illegal action. No international court anywhere has found any member of the British—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22b.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22b.xml", "sha256": "fb58abc07078232a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22b.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "Best to end when one is winning. The message for the Government is that a significant body of Members in Committee, regardless of party, believe that life imprisonment is a disproportionate sanction in such cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22b.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1195.4", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "ter to his post. May I ask him to pay attention to the dossier? It is 10 years almost to the week since I first raised, in an Adjournment debate, the issue of the internees. I took a delegation to meet members of the then Conservative Government, and was utterly rebuffed, because the Conservative party never looks after the people who have served our country. It took a Labour Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1195.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I sometimes wonder whether my hon. Friend ever reflects on the fact that Britain is also an exporting nation. Is he saying that those countries should not purchase our equipment or take on board some of our technologies? On munitions supply —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I sometimes wonder whether my hon. Friend ever reflects on the fact that Britain is also an exporting nation. Is he saying that those countries should not purchase our equipment or take on board some of our technologies? On munitions supply —[Interruption.] My hon. Friend knows some of the reasons why the factory closed. An industrial accident resulted in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "Four months, I am reminded, and some of us were more assiduous than others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "n.] My hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) says from a sedentary position that he would have deserted. In the present circumstances, the Government would have welcomed that. When I saw the amendments and a press release issued by my hon. Friend, I was worried that we had missed something in the Bill. I was concerned that the civil servants had got one over on us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1215.3", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, they are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "Those circumstances are dealt with elsewhere in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1216.3", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "Let me now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1222.3", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Bryant", "preceding_text": "I am absolutely sure that my hon. Friend is right in that, but the Bill is not the place to have that debate. This clause on desertion is not about the war in Iraq .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1222.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1224.7", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": "It could be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1224.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "Once again, the hon. Gentleman is trying to confuse the Committee—but it is he who is wholly confused about the issue. There is nothing in international law that has proven that there are currently, or have been in the past 10 years, British armed forces engaged in an illegal action. No international court anywhere has found any member of the British—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John McDonnell", "preceding_text": "Best to end when one is winning. The message for the Government is that a significant body of Members in Committee, regardless of party, believe that life imprisonment is a disproportionate sanction in such cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-22", "file": "debates2006-05-22d.xml", "sha256": "8e5c6b31f1d584dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1250.4", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harry Cohen", "preceding_text": "pplicable to the child, majority is attained earlier.\" We are one of the 192 countries that have signed that treaty, which came into force in May 2000, and we ratified the protocol on 24 June 2003 . That protocol sets 18 as the minimum age for direct participation in hostilities, and my first question is whether that is the case with under-18s in our armed forces. Can they be involved hostilities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-22d.1250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0de446df48896ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23a.1317.2", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "May I tell the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23a.1317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0de446df48896ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ious political battle, and there may be welter of warnings and even threats. Staff who make a commitment to support grant-maintained status worry about what will happen if they lose the ballot and find themselves back in the employ of the local authority, which expended a great deal of effort resisting change. In some cases that battle was bitter and extreme, and we lost most of the ballots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "0de446df48896ca1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It's called democracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "es who wish to see substantial changes made to the Bill. As the debate has progressed, it has become clear that the argument about the local ballot has really been an argument about how those who know that they are likely to lose today's debate can find some way of thwarting the main elements of the Bill when it is implemented locally. The ballot is seen to be the means by which that will be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1311.13", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1311.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1317.2", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "May I tell the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1317.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1318.4", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long!", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "rk of her predecessor, may I ask her to bear in mind that the withholding of aid and revenues from the Palestinians by the international community, the withholding of revenues that rightly belong to the Palestinians by the Israeli Government, the illegal expansion of illegal settlements announced during the past few days by the Israeli Government, the continued expansion of the illegal wall—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1357.2", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Robert Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Wilson", "preceding_text": "Can the Secretary of State confirm that trust schools will not have to pay for inspections by Ofsted, as some other independent schools have to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1357.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1374.5", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Grogan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More! More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Grogan", "preceding_text": "I do find it sad. I have probably taken up too much of the House's time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "ious political battle, and there may be welter of warnings and even threats. Staff who make a commitment to support grant-maintained status worry about what will happen if they lose the ballot and find themselves back in the employ of the local authority, which expended a great deal of effort resisting change. In some cases that battle was bitter and extreme, and we lost most of the ballots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1396.0", "colnum": "1396", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Winterton", "preceding_text": "In spite of her opposition to the grant-maintained school example, does the hon. Lady agree that ballots in the schools that became grant-maintained strengthened those schools because they had a head teacher who gave a lead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1396.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is called democracy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "es who wish to see substantial changes made to the Bill. As the debate has progressed, it has become clear that the argument about the local ballot has really been an argument about how those who know that they are likely to lose today's debate can find some way of thwarting the main elements of the Bill when it is implemented locally. The ballot is seen to be the means by which that will be done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1442.1", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": " vital in school, but in a minority of schools and classrooms, discipline is in a state of crisis. Teachers and learners face real problems; it is estimated that 270 serious assaults are carried out on teachers every year. More than 60 children are suspended or expelled for violent behaviour every day in London schools, according to an investigation conducted in 2005 by the Evening Standard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1450.8", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to petitions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1450.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-23", "file": "debates2006-05-23c.xml", "sha256": "3d2f3913a721b0ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1450.8", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We now come to petitions. [Interruption.] Order. Will Members please leave quietly? We have other business to contend with. It does not help if everybody flocks out like a football crowd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-23c.1450.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "63e9d20a6ad6580d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1469.2", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me give the right hon. Gentleman the facts of what has changed over the past nine years. I think it is fair to point out that whereas over the last four years of the Conservative Government the number of asylum applications rose by 50 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "63e9d20a6ad6580d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "For the very reason that I have just given to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "63e9d20a6ad6580d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1473.7", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hoorah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "I know that the Prime Minister is aware that the question of illegal immigration is in the papers consistently. It is a difficult one, but I came across a case the other day involving a man from Ghana. He came here for an eye operation, and stayed for 10 years on benefits. This bloke did not work at the Home Office; he was a Tory party worker in 1995.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1473.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "63e9d20a6ad6580d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "New Clause 5 — RESTRICTIONS ON SPECIAL SCHOOL CLOSURES", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "lip-flops, they have adopted our policy on HE funding. I also draw attention to the impact of the Tomlinson report on education reform for 14 to 19-year-olds. That issue was a political football that the parties kicked about for a number of years. There was a desperate need for consensus, and we resolved the problem by setting up an independent review body under the chairmanship of Mike Tomlinson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1543.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "63e9d20a6ad6580d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1593.3", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "New Clause 5 — RESTRICTIONS ON SPECIAL SCHOOL CLOSURES", "cue_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Intertwingle!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sarah Teather", "preceding_text": "I am not sure how to follow that extraordinary love-in between the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) and the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1593.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "63e9d20a6ad6580d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "New Clause 5 — RESTRICTIONS ON SPECIAL SCHOOL CLOSURES", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ks. The longer that I have chaired the Select Committee, the more that I have come to realise that it is not dogma that will deal with the problems that we encounter in our schools throughout the country. Some of my colleagues like dogma. A small group of them would still like to nationalise the top 100 companies, for example, and will vote for any of those old dogmas if they are given the chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24a.1594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1469.2", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me give the right hon. Gentleman the facts of what has changed over the past nine years. I think it is fair to point out that whereas over the last four years of the Conservative Government the number of asylum applications rose by 50 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "For the very reason that I have just given to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " new immigration points system, as we have outlined, but we also need to introduce the electronic borders that we have suggested, and we need a proper system of identity for everybody in this country. In addition, we need to change the law on deportation. Let me just point out to the right hon. Member for Witney (Mr. Cameron) that every time that this Government have sought to take measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "or Witney (Mr. Cameron) that every time that this Government have sought to take measures— [Interruption.] Well, yes, but although the Opposition talk about tackling the problem in general, they oppose the measures in particular that are necessary to do it. So let me point out to the right hon. Gentleman that they opposed the measures that increased our powers to deport, they opposed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1470.5", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I was merely pointing out to the right hon. Member for Witney that every time he and his party have had an opportunity to vote for tougher measures —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1471.0", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I tell you this: when people hiss, I cannot find out who is hissing, so the next move is that I suspend the House, and we do not have Prime Minister's Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I was merely pointing out to Opposition Members that every time that we have proposed tougher measures—for example, to deport people or to fine those illegally getting people into our country—and every time that we have tried to tighten the law on those people who are in prison and whom we need to deport, the Opposition have voted against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "osed tougher measures—for example, to deport people or to fine those illegally getting people into our country—and every time that we have tried to tighten the law on those people who are in prison and whom we need to deport, the Opposition have voted against it. [Interruption.] It is no use the right hon. Gentleman looking puzzled. Does he want me to go through each and every measure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1473.5", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor is doing such a good job, why does not the Prime Minister let him take over?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " health authority, but I point out to the hon. Gentleman that health funding has increased by more than 30 per cent. in the past three years, and that it is due to increase by 20 per cent. in the next two. As a matter of fact, I think that our record in respect of his health authority is rather good. The number of people there waiting more than six months for in-patient treatment has fallen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1477.2", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where has it gone?", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It is surely the case that, in the end, the question for the Government is the amount of money that we give to areas such as the hon. Gentleman's, and we have increased the funding again dramatically over the last few years. It has been doubled over the period of this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1477.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1488.4", "colnum": "1488", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "unities. I agree with the hon. Lady that it can be a struggle, therefore, for them to find their way through that maze, get the necessary resources put in place, get a statement that is appropriate to their child's needs, and get the education they need where they want it delivered. I argue for parental choice and for the needs of the child to be paramount. I take the hon. Gentleman's point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1488.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1491.2", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hayes", "preceding_text": "ime, but the resource issue that the hon. Lady properly raises is one of the reasons why integration sometimes fails. That will be an ongoing concern and something that Members on both sides of the House will want to scrutinise and raise when appropriate, both nationally and in their own localities. I must make a little more progress, or I will be chided by my own Front Benchers and other Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1491.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1533.3", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Gibb", "preceding_text": "I have not met such a head teacher when I have been going round. I ask head teachers, \"Are you on principle and deliberately manipulating your intake?\" and they always tell me no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1543.2", "colnum": "1543", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Chaytor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Chaytor", "preceding_text": "lip-flops, they have adopted our policy on HE funding. I also draw attention to the impact of the Tomlinson report on education reform for 14 to 19-year-olds. That issue was a political football that the parties kicked about for a number of years. There was a desperate need for consensus, and we resolved the problem by setting up an independent review body under the chairmanship of Mike Tomlinson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1543.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1552.10", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Damian Green", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We rest our case.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Damian Green", "preceding_text": "As, I think, the only pupil from Reading school in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1552.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1554.0", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "pecial needs and a percentage of children of certain ability. They argue that as they have accepted a certain percentage of children with special needs they will not take any more. As a result, community schools in the neighbourhood are affected. In Southwark, for example, where the City of London academy is located, 62.2 per cent. of pupils at neighbouring schools are children with special needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1562.1", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Graham Brady", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Brady", "preceding_text": "n other areas that retain selective education. Of course, in many areas where there are grammar schools, they are enormously popular, especially with some ethnic minority populations, who find them a way of raising their achievements and increasing their opportunities in life. The hon. Member for Bury, North talked about a consensus on this issue, and there is a sort of consensus developing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1562.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-24", "file": "debates2006-05-24c.xml", "sha256": "d9a7f749372dcae3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ks. The longer that I have chaired the Select Committee, the more that I have come to realise that it is not dogma that will deal with the problems that we encounter in our schools throughout the country. Some of my colleagues like dogma. A small group of them would still like to nationalise the top 100 companies, for example, and will vote for any of those old dogmas if they are given the chance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-24c.1594.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-25", "file": "debates2006-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "90b6587398529e8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "997 the savings ratio has halved, and 9 million people in this country are not saving enough for their retirement. Some 60,000 occupational pension schemes, with more than 1 million members between them, have wound up or begun the process of winding up on Labour's watch. At least 125,000 people have lost some or all of their accrued pensions rights. Not all of that is the Government's fault—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25a.1651.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-25", "file": "debates2006-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "90b6587398529e8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25a.1734.5", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "tists and so on, does not tend to dictate that fewer highly expensive facilities are provided that do more and more effectively. I hope that he can have that dialogue with my right hon. and hon. Friends in the Department of Health. It is, however, a genuinely vexing issue. The hon. Member also mentioned one or two other issues, and I shall not make the political points thatI might have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25a.1734.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-25", "file": "debates2006-05-25c.xml", "sha256": "f036b5c0874867fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1614.5", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "I have seven secondary schools in my constituency, but I shall spare the Minister the pleasure of having them read out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1614.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-25", "file": "debates2006-05-25c.xml", "sha256": "f036b5c0874867fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ary of State on the safe delivery of his White Paper to the House. Frankly, there have been times over the past couple of months when we were not sure that it would see the light of day. We welcome the key elements of the package that he has just announced. The Conservative party fought the last election on a platform of a restoration of the earnings link to curb the growth of means-testing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-25", "file": "debates2006-05-25c.xml", "sha256": "f036b5c0874867fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "997 the savings ratio has halved, and 9 million people in this country are not saving enough for their retirement. Some 60,000 occupational pension schemes, with more than 1 million members between them, have wound up or begun the process of winding up on Labour's watch. At least 125,000 people have lost some or all of their accrued pensions rights. Not all of that is the Government's fault—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-25", "file": "debates2006-05-25c.xml", "sha256": "f036b5c0874867fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "ss-party consensus to which they have devoted no time over the past few months. We have set out our own five criteria by which we will judge the White Paper; they largely reflect the criteria that the Secretary of State has set out. Does it deliver pensioner dignity? Does it deliver fairness, not just between the generations and the sexes, but between different groups in society? Is it affordable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1651.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-25", "file": "debates2006-05-25c.xml", "sha256": "f036b5c0874867fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1655.1", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "David Laws", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Laws", "preceding_text": "Does he also accept that although he has succeeded in capping the degree of means-testing in the system, he is still reliant on a system in which, even if his figures are accurate, one third of pensioners will be subject to means-testing? How will that affect the incentives for people whom he hopes will enter the national pension savings scheme? Will he also indicate why he has not accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-05-25", "file": "debates2006-05-25c.xml", "sha256": "f036b5c0874867fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1734.5", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Griffiths", "preceding_text": "tists and so on, does not tend to dictate that fewer highly expensive facilities are provided that do more and more effectively. I hope that he can have that dialogue with my right hon. and hon. Friends in the Department of Health. It is, however, a genuinely vexing issue. The hon. Member also mentioned one or two other issues, and I shall not make the political points thatI might have done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-05-25c.1734.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-05", "file": "debates2006-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "ffef67e6e58a9a86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-05a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "that give rise to this kind of claim. However, across the complaints procedure we can see how often members of the public and patients want an independent investigation. That has happened in so far as they have been given the opportunity to go to the Healthcare Commission. Previously, people had community health councils, which often supported complainants. The Government took that away from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-05a.36.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-07", "file": "debates2006-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "565ee9e98de97792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "uts will involve training budgets, which will mean fewer posts for doctors and nurses coming into the profession seeking to pursue their vocation. If there is a 10 per cent. cut in training budgets this year—as postgraduate deans across the country expect—that will affect 4,000 training posts for doctors. In Stoke yesterday, a lecturer in nursing at Keele university told me that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-07", "file": "debates2006-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "565ee9e98de97792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "e past 12 months. I am very surprised that he did not choose to mention that whereas in 1997 the number of patients in South Cambridgeshire who were waiting more than six months, in pain, for operations that they needed was 1,790, the figure in March 2006 was zero. It is extraordinary that the hon. Gentleman failed to mention improvements in his constituency and elsewhere, but I have to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-07", "file": "debates2006-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "565ee9e98de97792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes they are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has fallen into precisely the trap that so much of the media have and that I warned against earlier: those are not sackings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-07", "file": "debates2006-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "565ee9e98de97792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.271.1", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "John Bercow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": "lf-year-old boy who might in future require its services. I am not trying to make this point in a partisan way: I am simply anxious. The Secretary of State promised on 9 May to write to me directly, but has failed to do so, and I have still not heard from the Under-Secretary's office about the meeting promised to me. It is most unsatisfactory when Ministers make promises and then do not keep them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.271.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-07", "file": "debates2006-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "565ee9e98de97792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "Yes, and quite a lot of them came to see me. I helped them with that, which has given me a good understanding of the tax credit system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-07", "file": "debates2006-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "565ee9e98de97792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "uency, I can tell him that 3,600 people there were overpaid. He will have to ask them why they did not feel that it was worth their time to go to his constituency surgery. The right hon. Member for Darlington told us that the tax credit had left us with an \"80-20 society, in which 80 per cent. do OK but 20 per cent. are left behind\". —[ Official Report , 28 March 2006; Vol. 444, c. 710-11 .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-07", "file": "debates2006-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "565ee9e98de97792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ng to make them work. In a rare admission of error, the Chancellor, too, opened up that possibility at the end of last year when he said that the Government might have to examine fixed payments. However, I doubt that he will do that considering that he designed the flawed system and has presided over its incompetent administration. Today's tax credit system is his creation and no one else's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-07", "file": "debates2006-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "565ee9e98de97792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "uced he has not taken part in one of these debates. Like the Duke of Plaza-Toro, he has led his troops from behind. Frankly, that level of political timidity in somebody who—at least once—aspired to be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is very unbecoming indeed. My hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Anne Milton) correctly said that the debate is about people, and it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-07", "file": "debates2006-06-07c.xml", "sha256": "565ee9e98de97792", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "ouse what the package will really cost, and even then, they admit that this will reduce the overpayments by only a third, so well over 1 million families will still be overpaid even when the package is fully up and running. The PBR package does not address the problems at the heart of the current system—namely, its excessive complexity and its dependence on unreliable information technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-07c.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8e12b900155213b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "his apprehension. I understand entirely what the hon. Gentleman says about the case for a full debate on foreign policy. I am alive to that, as is my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip. Our only difficulty is finding the time, alongside many other requests. I say to the hon. Gentleman that there is an opportunity to raise those matters in the Wednesday debate on Europe next week, because Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8e12b900155213b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "prosperous areas. I could take him to a factory in my constituency that would not be operating without low-skilled workers from eastern Europe, because the owners could not recruit others to do those jobs. That is a reality, and we have to choose between maintaining employment at its current levels with all the protections, including the minimum wage, that we introduced and he voted against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8e12b900155213b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "people's liberties and their duties to each other. There are some significant issues to deal with in that regard. I was not doing this job when the Bill was launched last autumn, so I checked to see what my predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) said then. The title of the first page of his very brief notes was, \"Compensation Bill modest but welcome—Heath.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8e12b900155213b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08a.461.3", "colnum": "461", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "I cannot, because we are on a time limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08a.461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "8e12b900155213b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "mention part 1, but I will not now, except to say that the phrase \"desirable activity\" could well include playing croquet, so a lot of issues need to clarified there. Indeed, it is a thriving sport in my area. I will focus very much on part 2 and want to say up front that I am proud and pleased to be standing here as someone who has been a member of the National Union of Mineworkers for 20 years .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman says about the lack of Government support, and I hope that I have rebutted that by demonstrating the £750 million that we have committed to the rural network in particular. It is not the Government's fault that people are not choosing to use the post office. Habits are changing and the internet is available: there are many reasons why people are not using the post offices —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sadly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady makes a good case to be a member of the Committee that will scrutinise the Bill's 950 clauses. The Minister for Industry and the Regions, my right hon. Friend the Member for Barking (Margaret Hodge) , is in Europe today, sadly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.385.2", "colnum": "385", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " directors are supposed to do. Members would do well to remember that in another place many people opposed the Bill and would dearly like us to return it in a way that would allow them to get back into it. It is obvious that no matter what the Conservative leader says about the environment, his Front-Bench Trade and Industry team are tabling amendments to remove the environmental commitment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.385.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.386.0", "colnum": "386", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Ashok Kumar", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ashok Kumar", "preceding_text": "May I praise the Government for making a tremendous effort to try to strengthen our relationship with India as India emerges as a world power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Very shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e prospects for the European Council. I hope very much that the right hon. Lady and the shadow Foreign Secretary will use that opportunity to deal with what The Daily Telegraph described this morning as David Cameron's broken pledge on Conservatives in Europe. First, we heard yesterday from the shadow Foreign Secretary that a clear pledge, debated endlessly in this House before the election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "l as others, who were responsible for his apprehension. I understand entirely what the hon. Gentleman says about the case for a full debate on foreign policy. I am alive to that, as is my right hon. Friend the Chief Whip. Our only difficulty is finding the time, alongside many other requests. There is an opportunity to raise those matters in the debate on Europe next Wednesday, because Iraq—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "prosperous areas. I could take him to a factory in my constituency that would not be operating without low-skilled workers from eastern Europe, because the owners could not recruit others to do those jobs. That is a reality, and we have to choose between maintaining employment at its current levels with all the protections, including the minimum wage, that we introduced and he voted against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " well. If he is saying that the fine people who live there are facing difficulties, I shall do my best to sort the matter out with the relevant Ministers. However, I do not recall that Castle Point has a Labour-controlled council. Some other party must be responsible for what is happening there, and I suppose that it could be the one represented by the hon. Members who sit below the Gangway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.412.6", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The Olympic games will be a triumph for the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.412.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.423.10", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name them\".", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "I really must move on. Part 2 of the Bill sets out a scheme to regulate claims management services. Some very reputable claims management companies provide a good service, but consumers are too often exploited by firms that provide a bad service and encourage false claims—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.423.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.436.8", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": "eceived legal advice but, in addition, we must try to improve the tracing service so that more people can make a claim. On the question of who pays, it is the people who did wrong in the first place and their insurers who should do so. I accept that it is important to provide a simple, workable procedure, but one of the problems with Barker is that people have evaded their responsibilities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.436.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.446.2", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": " in the current system. First, the various accidents and injuries that occur—collisions, incidents in the park, incidents on trips with scouts or guides—total some £2 billion a year in claimants' legal costs. Much worse—this figure astounded me, but I have not seen it contradicted—more than 90p in the pound of the money that one gets back in damages is spent on costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.446.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "people's liberties and their duties to each other. There are some significant issues to deal with in that regard. I was not doing this job when the Bill was launched last autumn, so I checked to see what my predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) said then. The title of the first page of his very brief notes was, \"Compensation Bill modest but welcome—Heath.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "The central point here is, was the law unclear before? Was it unclear after Tomlinson? Was it even unclear before Tomlinson?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.461.3", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "I cannot, because we are on a time limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Anderson", "preceding_text": "mention part 1, but I will not now, except to say that the phrase \"desirable activity\" could well include playing croquet, so a lot of issues need to clarified there. Indeed, it is a thriving sport in my area. I will focus very much on part 2 and want to say up front that I am proud and pleased to be standing here as someone who has been a member of the National Union of Mineworkers for 20 years .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-08", "file": "debates2006-06-08b.xml", "sha256": "3e191d02c11c149f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right. Other Departments have, or will have, significant liabilities, but the fact remains—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-08b.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "38155c8576f0ad5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Clients?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "legislation that is designed to catch dishonest people. However, it is not utterly clear in some parts of the Bill that that will be the way that it will work. Despite those few misgivings and caveats, I welcome this important Bill. In relation to a remark made earlier by the hon. Member for Rhondda, it has not been standing room only here today, but the Bill is important to all our clients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "38155c8576f0ad5f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "ients, which is a huge change from the past. Nationally, the number of NHS beds has fallen by more than 30 per cent. over the past 20 years, while the number of NHS out-patients has risen by almost 60 per cent. That has changed over the decades, not just in the last few years. Of course, there are new technologies, better drugs, advanced surgical techniques and improved management practices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "a24e48476ffd66c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.515.4", "colnum": "515", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "ecretary of State for Work and Pensions, my hon. Friend the Member for Stirling (Mrs. McGuire) , who is the Minister with responsibility for disabled people, and I are currently developing a series of new proposals that will address some of the concerns that the hon. Gentleman has raised. I think that that was the first time that he has contributed to Work and Pensions questions, so I am grateful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.515.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "a24e48476ffd66c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.515.4", "colnum": "515", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": " for Stirling (Mrs. McGuire) , who is the Minister with responsibility for disabled people, and I are currently developing a series of new proposals that will address some of the concerns that the hon. Gentleman has raised. I think that that was the first time that he has contributed to Work and Pensions questions, so I am grateful. [ Interruption. ] It may not be, but it felt like perhaps it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.515.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "a24e48476ffd66c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for that answer, but there has been some regrettable publicity surrounding the Home Office and the way in which it has recruited illegal immigrants, often to work as civil servants. As I wander around the House early in the morning, I discover people from Francophone Africa, working for contractors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "a24e48476ffd66c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman feel that there would be greater public interest in debates in the House, which are watched and listened to by very few people, were the debates more worth listening to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "a24e48476ffd66c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS COMMISSION", "cue_speaker": "Graham Allen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Allen", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman feel that there would be greater public interest in debates in the House, which are watched and listened to by very few people, were the debates more worth listening to— [ Interruption]. Does he feel that a wider group of members of the public, architecture students and architects' practices could help us to build a Chamber that was more conducive to genuine debate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "a24e48476ffd66c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "f justice and it should be retained at all costs. The Solicitor-General, who was generous in allowing interventions and has taken the debate forward through his responses, made the point that the Bill will simplify to some extent the offences involving fraud and lead to shorter indictments. That, in turn, will lead to a simpler process, which will negate the need for denuding people of jury trial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "a24e48476ffd66c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.568.1", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Discuss.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": " and that A fears that people occasionally take advantage of her kindness. A's friend, B, asks A whether M has any money, as he needs a loan of £5,000. A knows that M has more than that amount in a savings account, but he lies to B, saying that his mother does not have any money at the moment. The morality of A's actions might be open to question, but would there be any criminality involved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.568.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "a24e48476ffd66c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Clients?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "t is designed to catch dishonest people. However, it is not utterly clear in some parts of the Bill that that will be the way that it will work. Despite those few misgivings and caveats, I welcome this important Bill. In relation to a remark made earlier by the hon. Member for Rhondda, (Chris Bryant) it has not been standing room only here today, but the Bill is important to all our clients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "a24e48476ffd66c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.570.0", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "o educate people to be on their guard. Why are we still throwing out our bank and credit card statements in the general rubbish, providing a rich source of opportunity? Some of us have bought shredding machines, but then we hear about armies of people sitting in darkened backrooms, putting together what we have shredded so that they can still read our bank account numbers. That is happening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.570.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-12", "file": "debates2006-06-12b.xml", "sha256": "a24e48476ffd66c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES (GLOUCESTERSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "ients, which is a huge change from the past. Nationally, the number of NHS beds has fallen by more than 30 per cent. over the past 20 years, while the number of NHS out-patients has risen by almost 60 per cent. That has changed over the decades, not just in the last few years. Of course, there are new technologies, better drugs, advanced surgical techniques and improved management practices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-12b.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "95e645d6910f5964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13a.686.3", "colnum": "686", "heading": "DEEPCUT REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Clive Betts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Clive Betts", "preceding_text": "ke improvements with the Bill, but not necessarily reach the ideal position. When we come to the further Bill, which I hope will come about in three or four years' time, we will be developing a form of registration that will be ideal for the purpose—it goes with the creation of the identity card scheme. That will eventually provide the basis on which we can create an accurate register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13a.686.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "95e645d6910f5964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "DEEPCUT REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "ith the hon. Gentleman that someone who donates to a political party should not as a result be barred from being in the other House. That would clearly be nonsense. People have the right to express their political views in their own way and there is no bar on appointing a donor to the other place. People are appointed to the other place on merit. I hope that hon. Members in this place accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "95e645d6910f5964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "DEEPCUT REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am always willing to be tempted but I shall have to show some discipline to the troops who will emerge at the appropriate moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "95e645d6910f5964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13a.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "DEEPCUT REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "ocrat Members will be particularly pleased that we are not creating any further offences. Amendments Nos. 19 to 26 and Amendment No. 88 relate to the provision for candidates' expenses. Hon. Members might recall that we had a vigorous debate on that issue—led by the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, my hon. Friend the Member for Inverclyde (David Cairns) —on Report in the Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13a.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "95e645d6910f5964", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "DEEPCUT REVIEW", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "or many hours—and I want to make two very quick points about it. I am concerned about the rise in regulation. The British Chambers of Commerce's \"Burdens Barometer\", which is an ongoing measure of the accumulated combined total cost of regulations on business, has now hit £50 billion since the Government came to power. That excludes the minimum wage, which Conservative Members support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "0e28345e4ebabc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.630.2", "colnum": "630", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "Dear, oh dear. I really think that the hon. Gentleman ought to reflect on what he has just said. The Labour party has won the last three general elections, I am very pleased to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "0e28345e4ebabc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.630.2", "colnum": "630", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "Dear, oh dear. I really think that the hon. Gentleman ought to reflect on what he has just said. The Labour party has won the last three general elections, I am very pleased to say— [ Interruption.] The Boundary Commission is an independent, non-party-political organisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "0e28345e4ebabc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.633.4", "colnum": "633", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "The Courts Service has now purchased a site in Colchester for the new courthouse. The next step is to appoint a firm to construct the building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.633.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "0e28345e4ebabc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Oliver Heald", "preceding_text": " getting them to register to vote requires a lot of hard work. People need to go out and canvass those homes, door to door. We used to do that in the old days, but we have made cutbacks and stopped doing that. That is what is needed—active campaigning to get people to register to vote. We need to bear it in mind that people live in households as individuals and not necessarily with a —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.667.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "0e28345e4ebabc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "ith the hon. Gentleman that someone who donates to a political party should not as a result be barred from being in the other House. That would clearly be nonsense. People have the right to express their political views in their own way and there is no bar on appointing a donor to the other place. People are appointed to the other place on merit. I hope that hon. Members in this place accept that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "0e28345e4ebabc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.711.3", "colnum": "711", "heading": "ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Lady accept that the position of a soldier or sailor at a shore base in Britain is very different from the position of a solider on operations in Helmand province or in Basra?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "0e28345e4ebabc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am always willing to be tempted but I shall have to show some discipline to the troops who will emerge at the appropriate moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "0e28345e4ebabc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.730.3", "colnum": "730", "heading": "ELECTORAL ADMINISTRATION BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Bridget Prentice", "preceding_text": "ocrat Members will be particularly pleased that we are not creating any further offences. Amendments Nos. 19 to 26 and Amendment No. 88 relate to the provision for candidates' expenses. Hon. Members might recall that we had a vigorous debate on that issue—led by the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, my hon. Friend the Member for Inverclyde (David Cairns) —on Report in the Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.730.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "0e28345e4ebabc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "SMALL SHOPS", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "or many hours—and I want to make two very quick points about it. I am concerned about the rise in regulation. The British Chambers of Commerce's \"Burdens Barometer\", which is an ongoing measure of the accumulated combined total cost of regulations on business, has now hit £50 billion since the Government came to power. That excludes the minimum wage, which Conservative Members support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-13", "file": "debates2006-06-13b.xml", "sha256": "0e28345e4ebabc35", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "SMALL SHOPS", "cue_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Henry Bellingham", "preceding_text": "m concerned about the rise in regulation. The British Chambers of Commerce's \"Burdens Barometer\", which is an ongoing measure of the accumulated combined total cost of regulations on business, has now hit £50 billion since the Government came to power. That excludes the minimum wage, which Conservative Members support. [ Interruption. ] We do indeed support it; we are on record as saying so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-13b.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "e32abfb64304ce19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.762.5", "colnum": "762", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "the time: \"If there is one thing that undermines people's confidence in the criminal justice system, it is the feeling that time after time sentences are handed down but people are released halfway through them.\"— [Official Report, Standing Committee B, 11 February 2003 ; c. 954. ] That is why we opposed it. Can the Prime Minister confirm something else? The only reason that this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.762.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "e32abfb64304ce19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "n vote against that. I agree with referendums and I think that they are a good idea, but I do not see why they should be confined to votes on issues that the Government and their supporters believe people should be allowed to vote on. People should be entitled to choose which issues to vote on for themselves. Perhaps they should have an opportunity to bring forward propositions of their own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "e32abfb64304ce19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.786.4", "colnum": "786", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I am not accusing my right hon. Friend of sitting on the issue, which is difficult and complex. If we accept that there is still a period of reflection —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.786.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "e32abfb64304ce19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is the fault of the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Mr. Todd) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "e32abfb64304ce19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "y will be conducted by an EU diplomatic service.\"—[ Official Report , 25 February 2003; Vol. 400, c. 131 .] Should not the Government therefore express strong opposition to proposals for this embryonic EU consular service at the forthcoming summit? The background to the summit is a slow-burning crisis in the European Union. We know that many of Europe's economies are performing poorly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "e32abfb64304ce19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "nd is being ignored. Unless the situation is brought to a crisis, the elites of Europe will pay no attention. I regret the fact that we are in that position, but if those in power above us have no intention of listening to the will of the people on these issues, we have little choice. Finally, I would like to offer the Minister a suggestion about how he could make himself even more popular —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "e32abfb64304ce19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "e European Union a good name. EU beef has in the past been distributed to pensioners in my constituency from the enormous surplus stocks, as has EU butter and cheese. I am aware that there are enormous stocks of surplus EU wine, so I propose that the Minister takes the initiative and seeks agreement with his colleagues to give some wine from the EU wine lake to pensioners in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14a.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.762.3", "colnum": "762", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The point about the 2003 Act is that it means that criminals are released halfway through their sentence. I know a thing or two about the 2003 Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.762.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.762.5", "colnum": "762", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": " the time: \"If there is one thing that undermines people's confidence in the criminal justice system, it is the feeling that time after time sentences are handed down but people are released halfway through them.\"— [Official Report, Standing Committee B, 11 February 2003 ; c. 954. ] That is why we opposed it. Can the Prime Minister confirm something else? The only reason why this case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.762.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Again, all that we have done is to toughen the ability of the Attorney-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me point out to the right hon. and learned Gentleman that the decommissioning costs of existing nuclear power stations will have to be met in any event. The whole point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "n vote against that. I agree with referendums and I think that they are a good idea, but I do not see why they should be confined to votes on issues that the Government and their supporters believe people should be allowed to vote on. People should be entitled to choose which issues to vote on for themselves. Perhaps they should have an opportunity to bring forward propositions of their own—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.786.4", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I am not accusing my right hon. Friend of sitting on the issue, which is difficult and complex. If we accept that there is still a period of reflection —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.786.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.797.0", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "Yes, it is the fault of the hon. Member for South Derbyshire (Mr. Todd) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.797.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.798.2", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The substance!\"", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "Government, who are reported to have asked \"how can you not be in favour\" of more transparency? The Labour manifesto of 1997 said: \"Unnecessary secrecy in government leads to arrogance in government and defective policy decisions.\" We need Government U-turns on Europe, but this is not one of them. I am conscious of the time, so I shall miss out some of the subjects that I was going to raise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.798.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.801.3", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "y will be conducted by an EU diplomatic service.\"—[ Official Report , 25 February 2003; Vol. 400, c. 131 .] Should not the Government therefore express strong opposition to proposals for this embryonic EU consular service at the forthcoming summit? The background to the summit is a slow-burning crisis in the European Union. We know that many of Europe's economies are performing poorly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.801.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "level, the nature of the debate would change tremendously. The most significant political post in European politics is our permanent representative in Brussels—UKREP. How many people can name our UKREP? Not many, but the kind of deals being done there are of great political significance and should be answered for. Would any Member like to intervene and give the name of the UK representative?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "I will not, as I have nearly finished. I turn to my final point. I heard on Radio Leicester this morning that the Minister for Europe is going to start a quest in England and Wales to make the European Union more interesting. I fully support my right hon. Friend in that proposal; it is a great idea. As well as going to mainland Europe, he ought to spend time going around this country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "nd is being ignored. Unless the situation is brought to a crisis, the elites of Europe will pay no attention. I regret the fact that we are in that position, but if those in power above us have no intention of listening to the will of the people on these issues, we have little choice. Finally, I would like to offer the Minister a suggestion about how he could make himself even more popular —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "the European Union a good name. EU beef has in the past been distributed to pensioners in my constituency from the enormous surplus stocks, as has EU butter and cheese. I am aware that there are enormous stocks of surplus EU wine, so I propose that the Minister take the initiative and seek agreement with his colleagues to give some wine from the EU wine lake to pensioners in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-14", "file": "debates2006-06-14b.xml", "sha256": "99d882c4f380038e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "le phone costs earlier, and we need to set out the way in which Europe makes a huge difference to people's lives. Another practical illustration of that is the number of cheap flights that all our constituents take advantage of these days. Anyone who comes to my local airport, East Midlands airport, will see planes full of our constituents travelling regularly on cheap flights across Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-14b.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "15a4e2d1b458a960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15a.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "All over the place. They are so deeply committed to the House of Commons and democracy that they have a solitary representative in the Chamber. The hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) asks about foreswearing the use of guillotine motions. I am not trying to make a casuistical point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15a.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "15a4e2d1b458a960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Brecon and Radnorshire (Mr. Williams) . By and large, my party supports the principle behind the Bill, although we have some concerns about the responsibility for non-devolved areas. Moreover, I bristled a little when the hon. Gentleman called for the commissioner to have teeth. In this context, that is slightly insensitive and might fall foul of anti-discrimination measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "15a4e2d1b458a960", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Watson", "preceding_text": "on that we are giving to the future of the UKHO is thus not only our duty to the organisation and its staff, but is part of a wider obligation to the taxpayer that I hope all hon. Members recognise. In view of the points made by the hon. Member for Taunton, it might help if I disentangle some of the facts from the speculation. To begin with, in effect, we are carrying out some pre-thinking —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15a.970.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman says is completely wrong. I announced in the Budget new money for capital spending on schools, so that each pupil in state schools would have exactly the same amount of capital spending invested in him or her as is the case in private schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman says is completely wrong. I announced in the Budget new money for capital spending on schools, so that each pupil in state schools would have exactly the same amount of capital spending invested in him or her as is the case in private schools. [Interruption.] They do not think that investment in buildings or computers or equipment is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.898.4", "colnum": "898", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Primarolo", "preceding_text": "I am sure, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that you would not want me to conduct an MP's surgery here in Treasury Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.898.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "We have had plenty of debates on sentencing. They have occurred in the context of many of the Bills that she is now complaining about in respect of law and order. As the Prime Minister so effectively pointed out yesterday, it is striking that, more often than not, when we bring forward proposals to strengthen sentencing and to toughen up the judicial system, Conservative Members vote against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.907.2", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "All over the place. The Liberals are so deeply committed to the House of Commons and democracy that they have a solitary representative in the Chamber. The hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) asks about foreswearing the use of guillotine motions. I am not trying to make a casuistical point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.907.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.907.4", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "gislation. There is a need for as much time as possible for Report stages, but the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome will appreciate that there is a limit on the amount of time available to the House. However, I am concerned that quite a lot of time that is available to Opposition Members is simply not being used, and I will make that available. There has been an early collapse of sittings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.907.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.913.5", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has consistently opposed criminal sanctions in relation to all drugs. I understand his point of view, but I do not agree with it. Increased production of morphine for lawful use is needed, but I do not think that that is an argument for generally legalising the growing of poppies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.913.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "Dream on. The pensioners of Wales will benefit from this pioneering Bill—probably one of the first such Bills in the world—and I am setting the context for this very important initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Brecon and Radnorshire (Mr. Williams) . By and large, my party supports the principle behind the Bill, although we have some concerns about the responsibility for non-devolved areas. Moreover, I bristled a little when the hon. Gentleman called for the commissioner to have teeth. In this context, that is slightly insensitive and might fall foul of anti-discrimination measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "UK HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Tom Watson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A fine man!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Watson", "preceding_text": "hat. Its reputation has been carefully built up over 200 years through the dedication and talent of its people. The need for a national hydrographic office arose at the end of the 18th century, when the Royal Navy required more reliable charts, as the hon. Gentleman pointed out. He failed to mention, however, that in 1795, Alexander Dalrymple was appointed the first hydrographer of the Navy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-15", "file": "debates2006-06-15b.xml", "sha256": "27b2be61338632f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "UK HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Tom Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Watson", "preceding_text": " well made; I understand that argument. The Hydrographic Office is an organisation with an international outlook, in keeping with the international nature of the world merchant fleet that it supports, yet it has still been working to raise its profile and become more involved in the local community. Judging by the response to speculation in the local press, that has obviously been very successful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-15b.969.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-19", "file": "debates2006-06-19b.xml", "sha256": "93ebea76414bde70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-19b.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "is asking me the same question—[Hon. Members: \"Right hon.\"] I beg his pardon. The right hon. Gentleman is asking me the same question, through a slightly different prism, that he asked a fortnight ago—that is, how I could vote on something with the Government a few months ago. I think that he has served in government, and he will know that there was a different Secretary of State then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-19b.1055.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-20", "file": "debates2006-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "10c869920c8e228f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "ive Government in 1989, did we really mean to enshrine in legislation that level of contact? The answer is, no, we did not. Surely it is right that the family courts should be predisposed towards reasonableness and that the burden of proof should lie in favour of more reasonable contact. There is one thing on which I will agree with the hon. Member for Mid-Dorset and North Poole (Annette Brooke) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-20", "file": "debates2006-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "10c869920c8e228f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "excellent job. Let us work on a cross-party basis. I will be delighted if the Minister says that the power of my rhetoric and my eloquence and soaring oratory has convinced him of the right thing to do. We would need not a new Bill, but good sense and the political will to right a profound wrong. I hope that he will make my day and that of the hon. Member for Stafford by agreeing to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20a.1235.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-20", "file": "debates2006-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "1b9e99e67419d8e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20b.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Ken Purchase", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ken Purchase", "preceding_text": "I support good management in every establishment. Good management has contributed wonderfully to the stupendous improvements that we have enjoyed in our health service in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20b.1173.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-20", "file": "debates2006-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "1b9e99e67419d8e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20b.1231.0", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "tee and in the Chamber—I have yet to hear one convincing, coherent and persuasive argument against such a new clause, and certainly not from the hon. Member for Liverpool, Garston (Maria Eagle) , whose presence on the Front Bench is much missed. The arguments advanced are based on myths. Child abuse is just as likely from a stressed sole parent or their partner as from a non-resident parent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20b.1231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-20", "file": "debates2006-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "1b9e99e67419d8e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20b.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "ive Government in 1989, did we really mean to enshrine in legislation that level of contact? The answer is, no, we did not. Surely it is right that the family courts should be predisposed towards reasonableness and that the burden of proof should lie in favour of more reasonable contact. There is one thing on which I will agree with the hon. Member for Mid-Dorset and North Poole (Annette Brooke) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20b.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-20", "file": "debates2006-06-20b.xml", "sha256": "1b9e99e67419d8e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20b.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stewart Jackson", "preceding_text": "excellent job. Let us work on a cross-party basis. I will be delighted if the Minister says that the power of my rhetoric and my eloquence and soaring oratory has convinced him of the right thing to do. We would need not a new Bill, but good sense and the political will to right a profound wrong. I hope that he will make my day and that of the hon. Member for Stafford by agreeing to do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-20b.1235.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "7a650559a6202302", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21b.1399.8", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "Yesterday, I announced the conclusion of the bidding round for new growth points. Many local authorities expressed an interest, but 22 had worked out detailed bids. They were keen for new houses to be built, and included the Tory-led council of the hon. Member for Meriden, which proposed new developments. In total, the proposals represent 80,000 new homes by 2016 on top of what is already planned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21b.1399.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "7a650559a6202302", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21b.1418.2", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Unfortunately, I am an Opposition Back Bencher, but I hope that the Minister may pick up his suggestion in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21b.1418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "7a650559a6202302", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21b.1425.0", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Very funny!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "ber for Hazel Grove asked my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden (Mrs Spelman) why she had not talked about rural housing affordability, supply generally or location. In fact, my hon. Friend explicitly mentioned all three. The hon. Gentleman spoke of the importance of football analogies; let me give him such an analogy. He took his eye comprehensively off the ball, and scored a series of own goals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21b.1425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "7a650559a6202302", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21b.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21b.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21b.xml", "sha256": "7a650559a6202302", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21b.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "velopments have taken up large areas of greenfield land, and it is simply not true that one cannot build at relatively higher densities and still include gardens or wonderful designs. I turn now to the main issues in the debate. The Opposition have called for an end to building on back gardens, but we need be clear about the facts. In 2005, 14 per cent. of new homes were built on residential land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21b.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1303.2", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "hancellor, the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) . Members of my Department wished to play croquet, and I think that we enjoyed the game, quite frankly. I know that a lot was made of it being during working hours, but I notice that there are not many people here today during working hours. Perhaps some are at Ascot, and the Daily Mail will be there photographing them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Skinner, you must be quiet. You must allow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1303.5", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No, I will tell no one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1303.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1303.5", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "No, I will tell no one— [Interruption.] Order. I tell the hon. Gentleman to be quiet. I will put it much more politely than he is putting it. He has got to be quiet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1303.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "That was a long and complicated question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1307.6", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What job?\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "That is a choice that has presumably been made by the Prime Minister and the Minister for Europe. I will be staying in that house. It goes with the job that I am doing, and I think that it is effective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1307.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1311.3", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that we are going to work together on knife crime .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1312.2", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister wants to know who is still here, he should not have abolished embarkation controls. In a week when a senior chief constable has said that policy is being made on the hoof—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1312.4", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "In a week when a senior chief constable has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1312.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1312.5", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "olice, asylum claims are now processed far more quickly, and we have reduced the number of asylum claims dramatically over the past few years. I agree that it is important to establish whether we can go further. I merely say to the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues that I hope he will not do what he has done before, which is to attack us in public for not being toff—tough enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "number of asylum claims dramatically over the past few years. I agree that it is important to establish whether we can go further. I merely say to the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues that I hope he will not do what he has done before, which is to attack us in public for not being toff—tough enough— [Laughter] —or even toff enough! Whether toff or tough, the fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1315.4", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Borrow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Borrow", "preceding_text": "During the European summit last week, did my right hon. Friend have the opportunity to meet members of the Dutch Christian Union party, which is against the election of women, or members of the Latvian For Fatherland and Freedom party, which is against foreigners working in schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1315.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1315.7", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Liveability is the ability of local communities to be free from crime and fear, which is precisely why we introduced legislation. I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues voted against that one, but it would not surprise me if they did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1315.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1316.7", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We are actually implementing those recommendations, but let me just explain to the hon. Gentleman—since he gives me a chance to say this again—some of the measures that the Liberal Democrats have voted against.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1316.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1319.4", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "It is not as if an immense amount has not been done already, for the reasons that I gave earlier. For example, there has been a lot of criticism about the immigration and nationality directorate for perfectly understandable reasons, but let us be clear about the situation that we inherited and what now happens. It used to be the case that the average asylum application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1319.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1345.3", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for bringing that to our attention. What it reveals is that we said that we were going to have a debate, which we are having. Secondly, it shows that we said that we would make an announcement about the licence fee. The hon. Gentleman has referred to the fact that a document mentions mid-2006, but it does not provide a specific date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "of that type of broadcasting in the United Kingdom. We need to have more programmes like that to teach our children about other countries and cultures. We live in an increasingly multicultural United Kingdom and we need to make sure that our young citizens know about the good things around the world, rather than just listening to the coverage at the moment, which is so negative about world events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1358.3", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "t they stand by their director-general and look after the interests of the BBC, rather than pander to the Government. I want to give my hon. Friends the chance to speak, so I will conclude on a more light-hearted note. I wish that we could have more culture programmes on the BBC. My wife and I love to watch romantic costume dramas such as \"Pride and Prejudice\" and Charles Dickens programmes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1358.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1359.0", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "John Grogan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Grogan", "preceding_text": "mmercial sector to be partners, but I would urge hon. Members to be sceptical about some of the commercial sector's claims that the BBC crowds it out. Since the BBC's inception, it has been in competition with the private sector and has thus distorted the market. BBC Parliament is probably the only BBC product that does not distort the market because it does not have a commercial competitor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1363.1", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Pete Wishart", "preceding_text": "minal justice, which have nothing whatsoever to do with the Scottish people. In fact, they are as irrelevant to the Scottish people as the health and education policies decided by the French Government. The people of Scotland pay their fair share of the BBC licence fee and are right to demand that BBC programming reflect their interest on an equally fair basis. There is at least recognition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1370.0", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "chover. It is appropriate for the BBC to have a responsibility to secure coverage for those who are paying for the service. I raise the matter with an eye on my constituency and my own household. At present, analogue access is poor on both sides of the Welsh border, including in my constituency in Shropshire, where many households, including my own, do not receive a clear signal through an aerial.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1390.0", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "e dwellings is driving the more lucrative option of garden development, which is below that threshold. What is so frustrating is that that rush to develop gardens has meant that exciting new opportunities for regeneration are being disregarded. We have a vision of building a lot more houses and homes as new garden suburbs for the 21st century, replacing the urban dereliction of the near-city ring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1391.0", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "d infrastructure already in place in our cities. There is a strong economic rationale for such development, as those sites are on former industrial land that has fallen into decay. With imagination and willpower, however, it could house apartments, shops and entire communities in new urban villages that enable people to find their feet as home owners. Our approach reflects that housing life cycle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1391.4", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Spelman", "preceding_text": "I have already accepted one intervention from the hon. Lady. In fact, I have been —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1399.8", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "day, I announced the conclusion of the bidding round for new growth points. Many local authorities expressed an interest, but 22 had worked out detailed bids. They were keen for new houses to be built, and included the Tory-led local council of the hon. Member for Meriden, which proposed new developments. In total, the proposals represent 80,000 new homes by 2016 on top of what is already planned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1399.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1403.3", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Opposition Day — [17th Allotted Day] — BBC", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had made it very clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1418.2", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Greg Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Greg Clark", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Unfortunately, I am an Opposition Back Bencher, but I hope that the Minister may pick up his suggestion in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1425.0", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Very funny!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": ". The hon. Member for Hazel Grove asked my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden why she had not talked about rural housing affordability, supply generally or location. In fact, my hon. Friend explicitly mentioned all three. The hon. Gentleman spoke of the importance of football analogies; let me give him such an analogy. He took his eye comprehensively off the ball, and scored a series of own goals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has a point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-21", "file": "debates2006-06-21c.xml", "sha256": "664934e9738b077b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "velopments have taken up large areas of greenfield land, and it is simply not true that one cannot build at relatively higher densities and still include gardens or wonderful designs. I turn now to the main issues in the debate. The Opposition have called for an end to building on back gardens, but we need be clear about the facts. In 2005, 14 per cent. of new homes were built on residential land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-21c.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "af365f18196747fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22b.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "resents a 40 per cent. improvement in energy efficiency in new housing. Secondly, I believe that there should be cross-party support for the home information packs that will be introduced next year. They will include an energy rating of every household, which has never been available before. They will also tell householders how they can cut energy emissions, and how they can save themselves money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22b.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "af365f18196747fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22b.1471.4", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his corrections in respect of the poor research by the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) . I say to her affectionately that that shows the danger for those of us of a certain age—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22b.1471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22b.xml", "sha256": "af365f18196747fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22b.1545.0", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " asking what the Government think of their armed forces. I can see what new Labour thinks simply by looking in front of me. Apart from the Minister who is winding up the debate, the silent Whip and the silent Parliamentary Private Secretary, there are acres of empty green Benches. Not a single Back Bencher is in his place for a debate on defence policy in Government time. It is embarrassing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22b.1545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "resents a 40 per cent. improvement in energy efficiency in new housing. Secondly, I believe that there should be cross-party support for the home information packs that will be introduced next year. They will include an energy rating of every household, which has never been available before. They will also tell householders how they can cut energy emissions, and how they can save themselves money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1470.5", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "With respect, that is simply incorrect. Today's main debate is on defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1470.5", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "With respect, that is simply incorrect. Today's main debate is on defence. [ Interruption. ] The most important priority for our defence forces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1471.4", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his corrections in respect of the poor research by the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) . I say to her affectionately that that shows the danger for those of us of a certain age—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1474.3", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jim Sheridan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Sheridan", "preceding_text": "priate Department and Minister to get that decision changed, or to explore ways in which we can ban the sale of products derived from the killing and slaughter of those poor mammals? As the shadow Leader of the House, the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs. May) , is the only female representative on the Conservative Benches, perhaps \"Only the Lonely\" would be an appropriate song for her—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1475.0", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady says from a sedentary position, \"Man, I Feel Like a Woman\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1495.2", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "On the latter point, we have been able to equip, train and assist a standing Afghan force that deals with eradication, and it is very successful. The problem is huge, and it will not be solved overnight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1503.6", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I realise that my hon. Friend wants to be helpful—at least I hope that he does—but he must let me reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1503.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1509.2", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Liam Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Liam Fox", "preceding_text": " of it. For example, there were originally meant to be 12 Type 45s. The number was cut down to eight, and the Government have failed to give a commitment on the final two ships, which would leave the Navy with six. That is the case before we get on to the ludicrous prospect of reducing our purchase of aircraft carriers, as has been rumoured, from two to one, to address budgetary shortfalls —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1545.0", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": " asking what the Government think of their armed forces. I can see what new Labour thinks simply by looking in front of me. Apart from the Minister who is winding up the debate, the silent Whip and the silent Parliamentary Private Secretary, there are acres of empty green Benches. Not a single Back Bencher is in his place for a debate on defence policy in Government time. It is embarrassing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "ers to Iraq. We simply have too few troops ourselves to police the whole world in conjunction with the Americans. At some stage, we may have to reorganise the permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations. They were drawn up immediately after the second world war. We now face a very different world. Perhaps countries such as Germany, although I have mixed views on Germany —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1567.2", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for giving the House that information. Can he confirm the following point—if he cannot do so immediately, I am sure that his right hon. Friend the Minister of State will be able to assist him? Before the delivery of the new helicopters, will the current fleet of Royal Navy Lynxes be upgraded in the meantime, because they are seriously overworked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1567.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-22", "file": "debates2006-06-22c.xml", "sha256": "5afe48b068965e74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1569.0", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Tom Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Watson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has made that allegation twice and the Deputy Prime Minister is not here to defend himself —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-22c.1569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-26", "file": "debates2006-06-26b.xml", "sha256": "16125aa66e0bcd3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-26b.37.5", "colnum": "37", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "cerned about the impact on small and much less expensive independent schools that benefit from charitable status and fulfil a public benefit by providing education. I find it inconceivable that a charity whose objective is the relief of poverty would not, prima facie, be providing a public benefit. Can any Member suggest that a trust for the relief of poverty would not be providing such a benefit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-26b.37.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-26", "file": "debates2006-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "d3beccd91596c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-26c.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "As I have already said to the House, it is open to commanders to deploy vehicles that have heavier protection than the Snatch Land Rover and they have to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-26c.7.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-26", "file": "debates2006-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "d3beccd91596c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-26c.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "ent in the health service means that that league and others can continue to purchase equipment and services that are often not central to the national health service. The leagues do a very good job, but we have put additional money into the health service—considerably more than £500 million. Priorities must be set and judgments made. I could make a comment, but I am not going to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-26c.32.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-26", "file": "debates2006-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "d3beccd91596c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-26c.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "preceding_text": "ctor. If facilities benefit only some children, let us make them available to all children by developing partnerships with independent schools. I do not believe that a provision to deprive independent schools of only 4.5 per cent. of their total income will be for the wider public benefit when we can already see the tendency for more of their facilities being made available to more children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-26c.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-26", "file": "debates2006-06-26c.xml", "sha256": "d3beccd91596c304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-26c.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "s for the Conservative party, was concerned that tin-rattling, as he put it, would still be allowed. The hon. Member for Cheltenham (Martin Horwood) defended the position of charity fundraisers, and indeed objected to the term chugging, which my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office used. My hon. Friend the Member for Brighton, Pavilion (David Lepper) who is not in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-26c.94.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b8e077bec5f0c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.120.2", "colnum": "120", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I will be going to China soon and I will be discussing some of these areas. I will do so in my usual forceful way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.120.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b8e077bec5f0c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.123.6", "colnum": "123", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "re was convened in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 13 January a strategy handling meeting to deal with \"Mackinlay's questions\", which was attended by 13 officials from the FCO, the Ministry of Defence and the security and intelligence services? Why was that necessary to deal with my questions, if they are not hiding more information on this subject? Is it not a fact that unauthorised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.123.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b8e077bec5f0c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "ety of measures were rolled into the constitutional treaty—if I may put it like that—some of which would not require a new treaty base, such as direct transmissionof information to national Parliaments. However, although the ideas that he referred to concerning the police and justice system have been raised by various individuals and commentators, there are no proposals to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b8e077bec5f0c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "ion to the state pension as a result of the changes that we propose to introduce through the White Paper and on which we hope to legislate in the next Session of Parliament. That is a significant reform, which many carers' organisations have been pressing on the Government for some time. I want to try to conclude my remarks as quickly as I can. I have probably detained the House long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b8e077bec5f0c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Terry Rooney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Terry Rooney", "preceding_text": "that happening. There is no better policed system than the national minimum wage, but there are still issues about it. There are still far too many employers who do not pay the national minimum wage. If they are not willing to pay a wage of £5.05 an hour, it is likely to be a problem for them to contribute to the national pension savings scheme. We really need a strong regulatory role—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b8e077bec5f0c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "me old ideas about people having a certain level of income, or the same job, throughout their lives. The world no longer operates in that way. When I accepted that I would have to work until 65, I tried to view that as an opportunity. When I thought about an ageing, white-haired old lady doddering around the place, I realised that I might not be doddering around this place but another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.197.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b8e077bec5f0c8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "James Purnell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "James Purnell", "preceding_text": "ere we are, six hours after the start, with another hour of life expectancy, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State informed us. I read the other day that the best way to improve one's life expectancy is to semi-starve oneself and be exposed to small but regular doses of radiation. I am not sure whether that does increase life expectancy, but it would probably make life seem a lot longer .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27a.225.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "a70b6af6ea88ea60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.120.2", "colnum": "120", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I will be going to China soon and I will be discussing some of these issues. I will do so in my usual forceful way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.120.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "a70b6af6ea88ea60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.126.1", "colnum": "126", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "ty of measures were rolled into the constitutional treaty—if I may put it like that—some of which would not require a new treaty base, such as direct transmission of information to national Parliaments. However, although the ideas that he referred to concerning the police and justice system have been raised by various individuals and commentators, there are no proposals to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.126.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "a70b6af6ea88ea60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.142.2", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "No. It is not true, as the hon. Lady has implied, that we have somehow changed our assessment of the valuation. She is not comparing like with like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.142.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "a70b6af6ea88ea60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.148.1", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "ion to the state pension as a result of the changes that we propose to introduce through the White Paper and on which we hope to legislate in the next Session of Parliament. That is a significant reform, which many carers' organisations have been pressing on the Government for some time. I want to try to conclude my remarks as quickly as I can. I have probably detained the House long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.148.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "a70b6af6ea88ea60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "It is important to correct what the hon. Gentleman has said about us not accepting Turner's recommendations on increasing the state pension age—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-27", "file": "debates2006-06-27b.xml", "sha256": "a70b6af6ea88ea60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.197.3", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kali Mountford", "preceding_text": "me old ideas about people having a certain level of income, or the same job, throughout their lives. The world no longer operates in that way. When I accepted that I would have to work until 65, I tried to view that as an opportunity. When I thought about an ageing, white-haired old lady doddering around the place, I realised that I might not be doddering around this place but another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-27b.197.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-06-28", "file": "debates2006-06-28b.xml", "sha256": "dddfda285c5d7cee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-28b.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jeremy Browne", "preceding_text": " other Departments. The first is the Cabinet Office. It is hard to know where the Deputy Prime Minister resides in the current Government structure, but there are three Cabinet Ministers in the Cabinet Office: the Deputy Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—a new post created as a consolation prize for the right hon. Member for North-West Durham (Hilary Armstrong) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-06-28b.276.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "ee274413ba646009", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05a.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name her!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "d by an ECJ judgment or potential judgment. I echo the remarks made by my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire as regards the sheer complexity of the tax system and, as a consequence, the need for outside expert advice. [ Interruption. ] The Economic Secretary anticipates my point. An error or oversight by Treasury officials was spotted by an eagle-eyed professional adviser—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05a.937.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.806.4", "colnum": "806", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " be extradited and their families as to what may happen, particularly in terms of bail, when they get to the United States. I will say more about that in a moment. What is important to realise is that the changes that we made a few years ago ended a situation where the United States was uniquely, to its detriment, not given the same arrangements as other countries. The purpose of the change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.806.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.817.0", "colnum": "817", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am, of course, grateful for advance sight of the Secretary of State's statement, although it has all been trailed in the press beforehand, as usual. The Secretary of State once again claims that she is the saviour of community hospitals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.817.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, it wasn't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for a reply that was somewhat longer than my initial statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.819.0", "colnum": "819", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for a reply that was somewhat longer than my initial statement—[Hon. Members: \"No, it wasn't.\"] Indeed, it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.819.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "As I have said, the fund is for community hospital provision—and I think that my hon. Friend is referring to the need for upgrading an acute hospital facility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Julia Goldsworthy", "preceding_text": "nd amendment No. 18 confers extra powers, so essentially we are talking about regulation and reporting requirements. The Paymaster General referred to why it was not possible to reveal the draft regulations in advance. If fraudsters are trying to get around the regulations, what difference does it make if they see them in draft form? Surely their desire to get around them will be exactly the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.896.3", "colnum": "896", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": "I thank the Economic Secretary for that intervention, but he highlighted the difference himself. He said that residential property companies are considering taking such a step, but commercial property companies have said definitely that they will do it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.896.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Francois", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Francois", "preceding_text": " did not—even if it wanted to register on one of the other EU exchanges—will the Economic Secretary tell us why that should be an absolute showstopper? Why should such a company not have REIT status? We know from the Standing Committee proceedings that the Economic Secretary sees himself as something of a philosopher, so we would like a clear philosophical response on that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.902.0", "colnum": "902", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Young", "preceding_text": "ew homes, which is the object of the exercise. In a sense, the commercial property companies have become the cuckoo in the nest. The nest was originally designed for residential REITs, but the cuckoo has come along and displaced the original occupant—the residential REIT. Unless the Minister makes a concession today or at a later stage, I am worried that the hurdles that will confront—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "Unlike my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire (Sir George Young) , this was my first experience of the Finance Bill, and I want to make one or two observations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "mpted to tackle missing trader intra-community fraud, leasing rules or film taxation—we found that the motivation for changing the law was that it was required by an ECJ judgment or potential judgment. I echo the remarks made by my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire as regards the sheer complexity of the tax system and, as a consequence, the need for outside expert advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-05", "file": "debates2006-07-05b.xml", "sha256": "2c38bdb130f82491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.937.0", "colnum": "937", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name her!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": "d by an ECJ judgment or potential judgment. I echo the remarks made by my right hon. Friend the Member for North-West Hampshire as regards the sheer complexity of the tax system and, as a consequence, the need for outside expert advice. [ Interruption. ] The Economic Secretary anticipates my point. An error or oversight by Treasury officials was spotted by an eagle-eyed professional adviser—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-05b.937.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d82b015082d87d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman expands the debate from one theatre to another. In the early part of the debate, I wanted to restrict my observations in order to keep the House informed about Afghanistan. He now wishes me to turn my attention to Iraq.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d82b015082d87d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "onfusing the complexity with the objective is putting people's lives at risk. I know that everyone whom I see in the House today accepts their responsibility to play their part, but I must send out that important message to people outside the House. Playing political games, or other games, with what is going on in Afghanistan is putting people's lives at risk, and we have to be very careful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d82b015082d87d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "As some of my hon. Friends know, I was anxious about that when it happened. We were in a position whereby we had to do it—there was no alternative in terms of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d82b015082d87d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sing it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "ire. The memory goes much further back than the first world war and beyond the days when Salisbury plain was purchased by the War Department to be our primary training area: for 300 years, at 12 noon on the day after the poll, the Member of Parliament for Salisbury of the time has to ascend the balcony of the White Hart hotel in Salisbury and sing the marching song of the Wiltshire Regiment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d82b015082d87d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "ities from which it drew its forces. For 300 years, the old county regiment of Wiltshire has fought with the British Army all over the world. There is an ancient and tattered flag in the nave of Salisbury cathedral—the very flag that the Wiltshire Regiment took up the Potomac river to sack the White House. I remind my American friends of that and point out the flag with great pleasure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d82b015082d87d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "ope that they will also eventually defeat the Taliban, but when they do, they must make sure that there is not a vacuum left behind. If they do not do that, the Afghani tribes will continue what they are doing, we will leave, and then the Taliban will come back in a few years' time. That is not what we want. There must be an infrastructure and a local economy. Afghanistan is a country that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d82b015082d87d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "f to do a television interview, so he is gainfully employed. I do not know precisely what he is saying; I hope that he is not criticising me. I also thank my hon. Friends the Members for Llanelli (Nia Griffith), for Blaydon(Mr. Anderson) and for Ochil and South Perthshire (Gordon Banks). I particularly thank my hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn (Mr. Touhig) , who is now to be my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d82b015082d87d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "level of spending. These points are becoming a bit old hat, but they none the less need to be repeated, because there are different versions of how they are to be viewed. As a percentage of gross domestic product, defence spending is sitting at 2.2 per cent., and that will be the case for the next two years. That is higher than the European average, so we are actually spendinga considerable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "d82b015082d87d38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "nce, in all the theatres in which we have engaged, whether Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, Iraq or Afghanistan. Yes, there may be issues, and we must attend to those. In relation to the similar point made by the hon. Member for Woodspring, a hard logic must be applied—if people are leaving because we are busy, we must be less busy, which means that we should not be in certain theatres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06a.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.966.5", "colnum": "966", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "First, I congratulate my hon. Friend on his appointment to the Privy Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.966.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.967.3", "colnum": "967", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call question 9—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.967.5", "colnum": "967", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "If he will make a statement on the UK energy mix. I am rarely left out, Mr. Speaker. In 2004—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.967.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.971.7", "colnum": "971", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry was in Geneva last week to emphasise our commitment to the Doha development agenda in meetings with the EU Trade Commissioner, Mr. Mandelson, and counterparts in other EU member states—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.971.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I will answer the question. As my favourite poet would say, \"Haud yer wheesht\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "I will answer the question. As my favourite poet would say, \"Haud yer wheesht\". [Laughter.] If the hon. Gentleman wants to know who that is, it is Rab C. Nesbitt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.977.6", "colnum": "977", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Lynda Waltho", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sisters?", "preceding_speaker": "Lynda Waltho", "preceding_text": "Last year's intake of new Labour MPs was historic in that, for the first time, it included more women than men. Most of those women were selected from all-women shortlists. Unfortunately, our sisters in Opposition parties have not fared quite so well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.977.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.978.0", "colnum": "978", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Meg Munn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Munn", "preceding_text": "The evidence is clear: it is only the Labour party that is making real strides on this issue. We are doing that through all-women shortlists —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.978.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "MINISTER FOR WOMEN AND EQUALITY", "cue_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Eleanor Laing", "preceding_text": "The Minister and the Liberal Democrats really must not worry about those of us on the Conservative Benches because in a very short time we will fill the Government side with many Conservative women —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Bill Olner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Olner", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware of the serious concerns in my constituency about the fate of the George Eliot hospital?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.984.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.993.2", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "John Bercow", "preceding_text": " Committee on Education and Skills and, importantly, the widespread concern about the virtual omnipotence of local education authorities, which assess, decide, pay for and, more often than not, provide for those needs, is it not vital that we have an opportunity to air the issue in the Chamber and to decide a credible and attractive policy for some of the most vulnerable children in our community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1001.2", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman expands the debate from one theatre to another. In the early part of the debate, I wanted to restrict my observations in order to keep the House informed about Afghanistan. He now wishes me to turn my attention to Iraq.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1001.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "onfusing the complexity with the objective is putting people's lives at risk. I know that everyone whom I see in the House today accepts their responsibility to play their part, but I must send out that important message to people outside the House. Playing political games, or other games, with what is going on in Afghanistan is putting people's lives at risk, and we have to be very careful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1008.1", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "Many things have been said about me since I became Secretary of State for Defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1008.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to give way again, because I am conscious that it is not just my time that is being taken up. Others will wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1012.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Soames", "preceding_text": "As some of my hon. Friends know, I was anxious about that when it happened. We were in a position where we had to do it—there was no alternative in terms of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sing it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "ire. The memory goes much further back than the first world war and beyond the days when Salisbury plain was purchased by the War Department to be our primary training area: for 300 years, at 12 noon on the day after the poll, the Member of Parliament for Salisbury of the time has to ascend the balcony of the White Hart hotel in Salisbury and sing the marching song of the Wiltshire Regiment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1045.2", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Robert Key", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Key", "preceding_text": "ities from which it drew its forces. For 300 years, the old county regiment of Wiltshire has fought with the British Army all over the world. There is an ancient and tattered flag in the nave of Salisbury cathedral—the very flag that the Wiltshire Regiment took up the Potomac river to sack the White House. I remind my American friends of that and point out the flag with great pleasure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1045.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a very good point, as he always does. He is absolutely right to say that not only are members of the elite regiments attracted to the private security sector, but people from the Guards and other infantry regiments are interested as well. That is absolutely understandable given the professionalism and training of Her Majesty's armed services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1062.0", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "James Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "James Gray", "preceding_text": "I think I am right in pointing to a strange anomaly whereby the sea cadets are not funded by the Ministry of Defence, but entirely charitably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1062.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "ty much the Prime Minister's lead that resulted in our troops being sent to the front line. I should be interested to hear the Minister's answer to that question. Finally, I want to pay tribute to all colleagues present in the House today. This has been a good-spirited debate, and let us remember that we are all in this together. It is important that we succeed in both Iraq and Afghanistan —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1069.0", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": "ope that they will also eventually defeat the Taliban, but when they do, they must make sure that there is not a vacuum left behind. If they do not do that, the Afghani tribes will continue what they are doing, we will leave, and then the Taliban will come back in a few years' time. That is not what we want. There must be an infrastructure and a local economy. Afghanistan is a country that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1069.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1076.0", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": " to do a television interview, so he is gainfully employed. I do not know precisely what he is saying; I hope that he is not criticising me. I also thank my hon. Friends the Members for Llanelli (Nia Griffith), for Blaydon (Mr. Anderson) and for Ochil and South Perthshire (Gordon Banks). I particularly thank my hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn (Mr. Touhig) , who is now to be my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1076.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "evel of spending. These points are becoming a bit old hat, but they none the less need to be repeated, because there are different versions of how they are to be viewed. As a percentage of gross domestic product, defence spending is sitting at 2.2 per cent., and that will be the case for the next two years. That is higher than the European average, so we are actually spending a considerable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-06", "file": "debates2006-07-06b.xml", "sha256": "71bc73873d681b2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1080.1", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "nce, in all the theatres in which we have engaged, whether Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, Iraq or Afghanistan. Yes, there may be issues, and we must attend to those. In relation to the similar point made by the hon. Member for Woodspring, a hard logic must be applied—if people are leaving because we are busy, we must be less busy, which means that we should not be in certain theatres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-06b.1080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-10", "file": "debates2006-07-10b.xml", "sha256": "349f12350de3df5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10b.1155.5", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "tives, obligations to be distinctive and innovative, and a requirement to consider market impact before developing new services. The existing board of governors will be replaced by a trust to hold the BBC to account. It will be closer to the public and further from the executive than the existing system, and, for the first time, there will be a separate, formally constituted executive board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10b.1155.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-10", "file": "debates2006-07-10b.xml", "sha256": "349f12350de3df5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10b.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "it very much. We are very concerned about the state of children's programmes. With our forthcoming child in mind, we watched some BBC children's television programmes on Saturday, and I was appalled by the violence and aggression shown, both between children and from outside groups towards children. I was absolutely amazed. In my day, we learned to make things while watching children's programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10b.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-10", "file": "debates2006-07-10b.xml", "sha256": "349f12350de3df5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10b.1212.2", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "ent work to set the framework for the BBC for the future. It is absolutely right that we spend so much time getting this right and ensuring that the level of the licence fee is absolutely right. Despite pressure for an expedient settlement by Opposition Members, the Government will work to do what is right for the licence fee payer and for the BBC and its competition. Speaking of expediency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10b.1212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-10", "file": "debates2006-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "9e3496c5e1a3863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10c.1094.5", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hywel Williams", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman accept that psychiatrists in my constituency have serious doubts about the capability test?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10c.1094.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-10", "file": "debates2006-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "9e3496c5e1a3863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10c.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ront Bench have a problem keeping up with our reshuffles. I am glad that I have been able to enlighten the right hon. Gentleman. On the serious matter, my right hon. Friend's point is that a focus and concentration on community engagement in the radicalisation programme, and understanding it better in ideological terms and confronting it in debate and discussion, would make a major addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10c.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-10", "file": "debates2006-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "9e3496c5e1a3863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10c.1155.5", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "tives, obligations to be distinctive and innovative, and a requirement to consider market impact before developing new services. The existing board of governors will be replaced by a trust to hold the BBC to account. It will be closer to the public and further from the executive than the existing system, and, for the first time, there will be a separate, formally constituted executive board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10c.1155.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-10", "file": "debates2006-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "9e3496c5e1a3863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10c.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Daniel Kawczynski", "preceding_text": "it very much. We are very concerned about the state of children's programmes. With our forthcoming child in mind, we watched some BBC children's television programmes on Saturday, and I was appalled by the violence and aggression shown, both between children and from outside groups towards children. I was absolutely amazed. In my day, we learned to make things while watching children's programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10c.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-10", "file": "debates2006-07-10c.xml", "sha256": "9e3496c5e1a3863f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10c.1212.2", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "ent work to set the framework for the BBC for the future. It is absolutely right that we spend so much time getting this right and ensuring that the level of the licence fee is absolutely right. Despite pressure for an expedient settlement by Opposition Members, the Government will work to do what is right for the licence fee payer and for the BBC and its competition. Speaking of expediency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-10c.1212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-11", "file": "debates2006-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "6314f11f36ef7001", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-11b.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "I saved the taxpayer a fortune by getting a cheap ticket down here from Leeds. However, my connecting train was late and the guard told me that I would have to pay up. I refused point blank to leave the train or pay any more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-11b.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-11", "file": "debates2006-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "6314f11f36ef7001", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-11b.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "LEARNING DISABILITY SERVICES (CORNWALL)", "cue_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Duncan", "preceding_text": "y supply goals. This statement is not carbon-free but content-free. We have been told for months that urgent decisions must be made now. We have been told that delaying those decisions would risk the lights going out and that this is the most fundamental review of our energy needs ever undertaken—and then all we get today is this statement. The statement proposes six new consultations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-11b.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-11", "file": "debates2006-07-11b.xml", "sha256": "6314f11f36ef7001", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-11b.1266.2", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "LEARNING DISABILITY SERVICES (CORNWALL)", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "hree months later, the shadow Chancellor said: \"I am happy to see nuclear power.\" Then, last week, the Leader of the Opposition gave the impression that he was for nuclear power, but maybe not yet. Once the Conservatives manage to get a consensus on what their policy is, I will happily talk to them about what we might do in the future. The Government believe that nuclear power could provide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-11b.1266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "66a83c5b18714bee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12a.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I want to make progress. I turn to the Extradition Act 2003. In fact, the Government's willingness to give to the United States special privileges under that Act that required no treaty at all with the US; it was merely a gratuitous act by this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12a.1416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "66a83c5b18714bee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12a.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I want to make progress. I turn to the Extradition Act 2003. In fact, the Government's willingness to give to the United States special privileges under that Act that required no treaty at all with the US; it was merely a gratuitous act by this Parliament. [Interruption.] If the Leader of the House looks at what happened, he will see that in fact, we abstained on the order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12a.1416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "66a83c5b18714bee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12a.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "t 2003. In fact, the Government's willingness to give to the United States special privileges under that Act that required no treaty at all with the US; it was merely a gratuitous act by this Parliament. [Interruption.] If the Leader of the House looks at what happened, he will see that in fact, we abstained on the order. [Interruption.] We abstained and expressed our misgivings, which were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12a.1416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "66a83c5b18714bee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Send him back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "at people could hear it. The very idea that we would abrogate a treaty with the United States was quite beyond his ken, and that is the problem. We all want a special relationship with the United States. I am the great-grandson of probably the only woman in the entire 19th century who emigrated from the United States to Scotland. She may have got on the wrong boat, but that was what she did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1382.6", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ther day, it is important to recognise that although of course we need to tackle some of the underlying causes of crime—that is the reason for the new deal for the unemployed, which the Conservatives oppose, for the Sure Start programme, at which they turn up their noses, and for the extra spending on education and nursery places—we also need strong antisocial behaviour, so that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1382.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1383.3", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are off the agenda\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, we were asked to listen to the representations that were made and we have listened to them. As he knows, the reason why mergers are on the agenda is the report by Her Majesty's inspectorate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1383.5", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "No, I certainly will not say that, because it is not correct. It is very important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "we introduce it right—and we will. It is a huge programme and there are bound to be changes along the way. But the basic point of introducing identity cards, alongside the fact that we will have to have biometric passports introduced in any event, is of central importance to the security of this country. I say to the right hon. Gentleman that it is actually he who has changed his mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me tell the right hon. Gentleman what is going to happen. We will carry on with our policies. I notice again that he has not asked me about any specific policy issue at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1385.0", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I can tell the right hon. Gentleman that the arrangements are exactly the same as they have been in previous years. The important thing is that when it comes to the country's future in terms of the economy, public services, law and order, pensions and energy—indeed, when it comes to the big decisions—this side has the answers and the right hon. Gentleman cannot make up his mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1385.4", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The evidence I have from the Attorney-General's consultations with the senior Treasury counsel is twofold. It may help the House if I set it out. First, in the Attorney-General's view, the test that the United States applies—probable cause—is roughly analogous to the test that we apply in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1385.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1386.2", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that, when I was mugged and robbed in London, the hooded youths responsible were simply making a plea for love and understanding?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1386.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1387.2", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And the world!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that Mancunians have welcomed very strongly the announcement—which has been awaited for too long—that the city's metrolink is to be rolled out? People see that as further evidence of the partnership between central Government and the city of Manchester, which is regarded as the social, economic and entertainment capital of the whole region—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1387.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have nothing to say to the hon. Gentleman other than the fact that we have got one of the largest regeneration projects that will happen in London, which will bring somewhere in the region of 10,000 affordable homes, 20,000 jobs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1391.3", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I was pointing out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1391.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1399.2", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Lady must know, the courts merely heard the appeal against the application for extradition, which they could consider only in the limited terms of the 2003 Act. The courts have no power to second-guess an application made by the US authorities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1399.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1400.0", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ann Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Cryer", "preceding_text": "Why has the hon. Gentleman waited such a long time before raising all these questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ann Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Cryer", "preceding_text": "No, on 22 November —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1405.5", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": " Enron three for the substantial publicity campaign that they have generated in order to prevent their extradition, nor do I blame the hon. Gentleman, who has done a good job of defending his constituent. Like all accused, the three individuals are innocent until proved guilty, and they may well be acquitted. No one, least of all the Enron three, has claimed that there is no evidence against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1405.5", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "e generated in order to prevent their extradition, nor do I blame the hon. Gentleman, who has done a good job of defending his constituent. Like all accused, the three individuals are innocent until proved guilty, and they may well be acquitted. No one, least of all the Enron three, has claimed that there is no evidence against them. [ Interruption. ] They have been accused of very serious crimes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": " in the form of the alleged conspiracy and the witnesses, is in the United States, where the case is well advanced. That is where the alleged conspiracy took place. The three individuals are British citizens resident in the UK. They were employees of a UK bank responsible for a number of bank clients, including a subsidiary of Enron in the United States. Enron's headquarters are in Houston, Texas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I have to say to the Solicitor-General that I cannot think of any reason not to abrogate the treaty with the United States at the moment. There is absolutely no national advantage to our having signed it whatsoever. I said to the Solicitor-General that I would consider the other aspects —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I want to make progress. I turn to the Extradition Act 2003. In fact, the Government's willingness to give to the United States special privileges under that Act required no treaty at all with the US; it was merely a gratuitous act by this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I want to make progress. I turn to the Extradition Act 2003. In fact, the Government's willingness to give to the United States special privileges under that Act required no treaty at all with the US; it was merely a gratuitous act by this Parliament. [Interruption.] If the Leader of the House looks at what happened, he will see that in fact, we abstained on the order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1416.2", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "on Act 2003. In fact, the Government's willingness to give to the United States special privileges under that Act required no treaty at all with the US; it was merely a gratuitous act by this Parliament. [Interruption.] If the Leader of the House looks at what happened, he will see that in fact, we abstained on the order. [Interruption.] We abstained and expressed our misgivings, which were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1417.2", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "acie case in a documentary and discursive sense is certainly required, although it can be done by hearsay. In contrast, all that the United States must now do is send in a document in which it sets out a case. As long as that case is made out, and the other criteria, which are a list of safeguards on identity, dual criminality, double jeopardy and the illness of the defendant, are satisfied—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1432.9", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I shall try to address the point made by his colleague. The absence of reciprocity was introduced by the signing of the treaty, which we enacted in the Extradition Act 2003. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe rightly used the verb—or adjective—poodle. It was a poodle-like act of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1432.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1436.2", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "From a Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-12", "file": "debates2006-07-12b.xml", "sha256": "61ee14d2a547c914", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "George Galloway", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Send him back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Galloway", "preceding_text": "at people could hear it. The very idea that we would abrogate a treaty with the United States was quite beyond his ken, and that is the problem. We all want a special relationship with the United States. I am the great-grandson of probably the only woman in the entire 19th century who emigrated from the United States to Scotland. She may have got on the wrong boat, but that was what she did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-12b.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9a4c51398e04edc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13a.1473.0", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "s. Next week, we will have the capability reviews of individual departments. That is a continuing process that will lead to the spending round next year. I thought that he would have welcomed that, particularly since he has a special problem to solve: he has to find £20 billion to plug the gap. When the leader of the hon. Gentleman's party was asked a few days ago how he would do that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13a.1473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9a4c51398e04edc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Let me deal first with the hon. Gentleman's point about the drawing down of Questions 4 and 14 by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. There is nothing unusual about this procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9a4c51398e04edc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13a.1512.0", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "e entirely encourage it. We are seeking, with the consultation document that will build on Lord Carter's report, to use the new fixed fee regime that he proposes to try to enhance the ability of the judiciary to manage cases properly. The hon. Gentleman also referred to the frequently expressed criticism of fat cat barristers who earn enormous amounts of money. I have never been fat myself —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13a.1512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "9a4c51398e04edc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13a.1546.2", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "inister questioned us at some length to try to get details of who would employ the person and whether they would be truly independent of the NHS. I confess that I felt that the Minister was taking the view that we, as Opposition Members, often take in Standing Committees, because we are often faced with something fairly broadbrush from the Government and are asked to take a lot of things on trust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13a.1546.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "10d4135a413eb56d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I just repeat what the hon. Gentleman says outside the House but not in it. He supported us and congratulated us on our successful macro-economic policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "10d4135a413eb56d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1453.3", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "has been successful in \"establishing economic credibility.\" He also said: \"Labour have improved the macro-economic management of the UK economy.\" If he is not prepared to say those things in the House but says them outside, the country will have to draw its own conclusions. As for European issues, perhaps he should read the e-mails of the Leader of the Opposition's parliamentary private secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "10d4135a413eb56d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1470.7", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "terms, releasing extra resources for front-line services. These administrative savings make possible improvements in service within a Home Office budget which, as agreed, will have a flat real settlement, and settlements for the Treasury, Department for Work and Pensions, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and the Cabinet Office, which have agreed a 20 per cent. real-terms decrease over five years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1470.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "10d4135a413eb56d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1470.7", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"This is a statement\".", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ews on children and young people, the third sector, economic development and regeneration, supporting housing growth, mental health outcomes and counter-terrorism and security. These will inform cross-Government priorities for the comprehensive spending review. I can confirm that Sir David Varney, chairman of HMRC, will report to me at the pre-Budget report on further administrative savings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1470.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "10d4135a413eb56d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1470.7", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ment priorities for the comprehensive spending review. I can confirm that Sir David Varney, chairman of HMRC, will report to me at the pre-Budget report on further administrative savings—[Hon. Members: \"This is a statement\".]—and I am also publishing my letter to the public sector pay review bodies, proposing that public sector pay settlements should be founded on a 2 per cent. target.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1470.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "10d4135a413eb56d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1471.4", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I reject the rule that has been put forward called the third fiscal rule. The third fiscal rule would require, no matter what the circumstances, that public spending should fall as a share of national income.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1471.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-13", "file": "debates2006-07-13b.xml", "sha256": "10d4135a413eb56d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1472.1", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "that he would not compete with us at the next general election on efficiency savings. What he would do is promise that there would be very specific cuts in particular areas of the Budget, such as child tax credits and the new deal. He said: \"It's a hard choice which we will put to voters in an election.\" He should tell us which hospitals, which schools, which teachers and which nurses will —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-13b.1472.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f8708ea17e3c7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "The irony is lost on the hon. Member for Monmouth (David T.C. Davies) , as usual. It is somewhat dog in the manger to hear the bleatingof democratic concern from Conservatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f8708ea17e3c7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "t commitment. When the right hon. Gentleman comes to use his manifesto promises on this occasion, he will understand why some of us are rather cynical about when and where Labour right hon. and hon. Members choose to support their Government. The second point, which I make to the Secretary of State, is that the Government did not win the last general election. They got roughly a third of the vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.199.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f8708ea17e3c7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "hange to an electoral system that will allow the overall principle to continue, instead of having the political courage to come out and say, \"We don't believe in proportional representation. We are going to scrap it completely and have either one or two Members elected to each constituency in Wales.\" That would be an intellectually honest approach for Members who do not like the PR system to take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f8708ea17e3c7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davies", "preceding_text": "he constituency in question. That is why the Government are pushing through this change. They can smile and laugh, because they know that most people will be lost when the change is explained to them. They know that the man on the Pontypool omnibus—if there are such things any more; that is perhaps a debate for another time, but thanks to the cuts, many such services are disappearing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.203.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f8708ea17e3c7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, because he is having his love-in and his little backroom deal between those on the Liberal Democrat Front Bench —[ Interruption. ] I am certainly not jealous; I do not want to be catching the Secretaryof State's germs by getting that close to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "8f8708ea17e3c7b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " force. However, if the Lords amendment is not allowed to stand, the Secretary of State will be able unilaterally to give notice in writing to the First Minister that he refuses to lay an order and merely give his reasons. The order simply would not have to be laid and the Secretary of State could block the process from reaching Parliament. During the debate in another place, Lord Kingsland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "cbd6734d3e2a0d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "Normally, Liberal Democrats are the first to jump up and cry foul about micro-management and targets coming from the centre. Again, dare I say, they want to have it both ways. As far as I am concerned, car parking is a big issue for the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.134.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "cbd6734d3e2a0d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I think that what we can say with certainty is that there is no certainty for the future. However —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "cbd6734d3e2a0d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.172.3", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I was present then, and the Minister concerned did refer to the hon. Gentleman's misleading his constituents outside Parliament. My problem is that I have enough to do here in Parliament, without worrying about the hon. Gentleman's constituency. I am sure that he will find a way to put the record right. The Minister concerned is a reasonable person and he will —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "cbd6734d3e2a0d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.185.3", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a helpful point, and I should correct myself, because it is not an offence to smoke under the age of 16, but to sell cigarettes to those under 16. Given the number of schools that have healthy schools policies, however, I do not think that a single head teacher in the land would encourage smoking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.185.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "cbd6734d3e2a0d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.198.4", "colnum": "198", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that both the Conservatives and the Labour party do not want to make winners out of losers. In the case that neither party gets an absolute majority at the next general election, I presume that they will not seek to impose their minority manifesto upon the country. In that context I was more than a little surprised to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.198.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "cbd6734d3e2a0d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, because he is having his love-in and his little backroom deal with those on the Liberal Democrat Front Bench —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "cbd6734d3e2a0d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": "I grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way, because he is having his love-in and his little backroom deal with those on the Liberal Democrat Front Bench —[ Interruption. ] I am certainly not jealous; I do not want to be catching the Secretary of State's germs by getting that close to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "cbd6734d3e2a0d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Cheryl Gillan", "preceding_text": " force. However, if the Lords amendment is not allowed to stand, the Secretary of State will be able unilaterally to give notice in writing to the First Minister that he refuses to lay an order and merely give his reasons. The order simply would not have to be laid and the Secretary of State could block the process from reaching Parliament. During the debate in another place, Lord Kingsland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-18", "file": "debates2006-07-18b.xml", "sha256": "cbd6734d3e2a0d8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF WALES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Indeed, I will do so in the remaining four hours of my contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-18b.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "88798ba8de1b98f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.307.4", "colnum": "307", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It sounds to me as if the hon. Gentleman is a busted flush—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "88798ba8de1b98f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "nd religious extremism was repressed, borders were inviolable, and peoples were largely static. The end of the cold war brought a torrent of new problems and, above all, the challenge of international mobility on a hitherto unimaginable scale. We have seen unprecedented levels of migration, with the movement of more than 200 million people in 2005, the development of international terrorism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "88798ba8de1b98f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Opposition Day [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows something about buying and selling houses and is absolutely right to say that these packs, had they been introduced, would have failed first-time buyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "88798ba8de1b98f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Opposition Day [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows something about buying and selling houses and is absolutely right to say that these packs, had they been introduced, would have failed first-time buyers. [Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"] Let me explain; I shall be delighted to do so and shall take as long as hon. Gentlemen want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "88798ba8de1b98f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Opposition Day [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is experienced in those matters. Indeed, I believe that she is currently training in the process of undertaking home condition reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "88798ba8de1b98f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Opposition Day [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Many Members have talked about subsidence. As an engineer, I like subsidence; it provides me with a great intellectual challenge, and I have never yet come across an instance of subsidence that I cannot sort out—but that is me. I have looked into the qualifications of Members of this House, and none of them has any of the qualifications that I have, so I am okay on the subject of subsidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "88798ba8de1b98f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Opposition Day [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "amentarian but as a Minister. He may be pleased to know that my own constituency benefited hugely from Eric's time as a Minister. I am also grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his tribute to Robin Cook. The two men were great debaters in this House. I applaud him for his maiden speech. He may not have been an A-list candidate but he is an A-list Member of Parliament, and I welcome him to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I shall quote what the Tory leader of Southend says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.307.4", "colnum": "307", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It sounds to me as though the hon. Gentleman is a busted flush—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.307.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.307.5", "colnum": "307", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is difficult for me to be fair if I cannot hear what is going on. I shall take advice on what has just been said and make a ruling —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.307.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "There would be tremendous benefits from the home condition reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.312.4", "colnum": "312", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We do not neuter any proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.312.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.313.5", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I thank her for drawing my attention to what is actually another Tory policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.313.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Both sides.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman is seriously saying that I should call for an unconditional ceasefire by Israel now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.314.2", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ence with Hezbollah has been somewhat limited? It would not be possible. Does he not understand that Hezbollah fired somewhere in the region of 1,600 rockets into northern Israel? I agree that what is happening in Lebanon is tragic and terrible, not least for the Lebanese people and the Lebanese Government—a Government who have brought their country out of the dark days into democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.314.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "d religious extremism were repressed, borders were inviolable, and peoples were largely static. The end of the cold war brought a torrent of new problems and, above all, the challenge of international mobility on a hitherto unimaginable scale. We have seen unprecedented levels of migration, with the movement of more than 200 million people in 2005, the development of international terrorism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.327.0", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "es, the limited evidence that we have suggests that the person may have left of their own accord. I did say that we would aim to clear up the caseload legacy in five years—or, I hope, less time than that. That is because we have made significant progress since the right hon. Gentleman's party was in power. We no longer take 22 months to deal with a case; we deal with it in eight weeks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.327.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "eir own volition; some may now be here legitimately because they came from states that have subsequently become part of the European Union; and some may even have died. For all those reasons, I cannot give the hon. Gentleman an exact figure. I have a quote from the last Conservative Home Secretary, who said: \"By its very nature, illegal immigration is difficult to measure and any estimates\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " a quote from the last Conservative Home Secretary, who said: \"By its very nature, illegal immigration is difficult to measure and any estimates\"— [ Interruption. ] Well, illegal immigration and failed asylum seekers who have disappeared like illegal immigrants and are trying to evade the authorities bear a striking similarity in terms of how difficult it is to calculate their number —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.347.3", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "elighted that the Minister for Housing and Planning, in making yesterday's announcement, accepted the force of Conservative arguments, because we have consistently highlighted the scheme's weakness and invited her to climb down. I am particularly delighted that she has appreciated the importance of economic stability and the vital role that a stable housing market plays in ensuring such stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.347.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.347.5", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "et. That report took the Government's own projections of the likely effect of home information packs—a 10 per cent. reduction in the number of properties for sale—and fed the figures through the Treasury model. The report showed that, as a result of pressing ahead, there would have been a deleterious effect not just on economic stability, but on gross domestic product and unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.347.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.348.0", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": "Was not the sad reading from the Whip's brief that we heard earlier evidence of the Government's considerable embarrassment at having got the worst of all possible worlds? My hon. Friend is being far too kind to the Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.348.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.352.0", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Gentleman enlighten those of us on the Labour Benches on whether he is in favour of energy performance certificates? Would the hon. Gentleman help us by simply saying yes or no?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.353.5", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They do not!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shailesh Vara", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that references to first-time buyers bring to mind the fact that first-time buyers are often short of money? They have enough stress as it is and the need to produce extra cash for these useless packs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.353.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows something about buying and selling houses and is absolutely right to say that these packs, had they been introduced, would have failed first-time buyers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Opposition Day — [Un-allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Michael Gove", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Gove", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows something about buying and selling houses and is absolutely right to say that these packs, had they been introduced, would have failed first-time buyers. [Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"] Let me explain; I shall be delighted to do so and shall take as long as hon. Gentlemen want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "ithout home energy efficiency certificates, there will still be substantial problems with compliance. On transparency, I am sure the hon. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) would be the first to say that markets work best when they are informed markets. Home sellers should not concentrate on baking bread in the kitchen on the day that the buyer comes round so that the house smells right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Stunell", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Surrey Heath (Michael Gove) would be the first to say that markets work best when they are informed markets. Home sellers should not concentrate on baking bread in the kitchen on the day that the buyer comes round so that the house smells right— [Interruption.] They should make sure that the house is properly insulated and has the right equipment to maintain energy efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Raynsford", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is experienced in those matters. Indeed, I believe that she is currently training in the process of undertaking home condition reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Claire Curtis-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Many Members have talked about subsidence. As an engineer, I like subsidence; it provides me with a great intellectual challenge, and I have never yet come across an instance of subsidence that I cannot sort out—but that is me. I have looked into the qualifications of Members of this House, and none of them has any of the qualifications that I have, so I am okay on the subject of subsidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Robert Syms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Syms", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend, who I am sure will make a great contribution in future years in this House. We have had an interesting debate. Some of us have lived with the issue of HIPs for a considerable time, and we sometimes wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, thinking about the consequences of the measure. The Opposition's position has been entirely consistent for the past half dozen years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "amentarian but as a Minister. He may be pleased to know that my own constituency benefited hugely from Eric's time as a Minister. I am also grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his tribute to Robin Cook. The two men were great debaters in this House. I applaud him for his maiden speech. He may not have been an A-list candidate but he is an A-list Member of Parliament, and I welcome him to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Ainger", "preceding_text": "I am assured that the powers are in the Bill. I cannot direct the right hon. Gentleman to the exact clause, but the commissioner has the power to enter premises—not private premises, but premises where care is provided, and so on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-19", "file": "debates2006-07-19b.xml", "sha256": "c1228e9b2565cc47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.425.2", "colnum": "425", "heading": "RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "preceding_text": "ht to the whole of Cumbria was incalculable. Thankfully, the company met its nemesis in the late Bill Minto, OBE, the then leader of Cumbria county council. At this juncture, I would like to point out that I worked for Nirex for a little over a year before, like many others, being made redundant. Some may mistakenly assume that my attitude to the company is somehow shaped by that experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-19b.425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-20", "file": "debates2006-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "88b25de4dd8910ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "my statement and for his support for some of the proposals in it. He asked whether we would consider other measures that he has looked at, and I can tell him that I am open-minded and always prepared to consider any measure that will protect the public better. I fear that the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) probably wrote parts of his speech before he heard my statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-20", "file": "debates2006-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "59e0fcf4395a62a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "it is important that we keep up the pressure at all levels—at governmental level, and, as I said in the Environmental Audit Committee yesterday, at business level and state level. He will know that 240 US cities are now party to the Kyoto agreement, covering 45 million citizens. Secondly, in respect of the intergovernmental level, we are working hard as part of the Gleneagles dialogue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-20", "file": "debates2006-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "59e0fcf4395a62a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.444.1", "colnum": "444", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "ng hard as part of the Gleneagles dialogue— [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker) keeps on shouting from a sedentary position, \"How?\" He obviously does not know that Governments speak to each other and that they have a process that leads to decisions being made at a certain time. It would be foolish of me to announce decisions in advance of meetings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-20", "file": "debates2006-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "59e0fcf4395a62a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Career advice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for my hon. Friend's advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-20", "file": "debates2006-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "59e0fcf4395a62a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "the kind words with which he welcomed my statement and for his support for some of the proposals in it. He asked whether we would consider other measures that he has looked at, and I can tell him that I am open-minded and always prepared to consider any measure that will protect the public better. I fear that the right hon. Gentleman probably wrote parts of his speech before he heard my statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-20", "file": "debates2006-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "59e0fcf4395a62a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": " length of sentences because we believe that, while we should reduce crime, we should treat those who commit violent or serious sexual offences in a more fitting manner by giving them tougher sentences. That is the view that we have tried to take in a balanced and sensible fashion. The views that the hon. Gentleman expresses do not concur entirely with those expressed by his Front-Bench spokesmen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-20", "file": "debates2006-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "59e0fcf4395a62a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Generous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Hancock", "preceding_text": "The Minister was extraordinarily grateful in taking interventions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-20", "file": "debates2006-07-20b.xml", "sha256": "59e0fcf4395a62a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "First, I am not sure whether the Iranian ambassador has arrived yet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-20b.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "32df61ca484c22ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24a.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "do not know how best to interpret the question. She knows that a major procurement programme is under way in terms of the Astute submarines, and the basing of that has been determined. There will be a long-term use of that particular capability. As we look towards future capabilities, we have set out what we intend to do about the replacement for Trident, if she was directing her question at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24a.580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "32df61ca484c22ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "on this.\" But in a parliamentary written answer to me on 16 June , the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the hon. Member for Stirling (Mrs. McGuire) published figures—she should listen because she probably does not remember what she put in Hansard —showing that if there were no changes at all, in 10 years' time there would be only 2.36 million incapacity claimants anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "32df61ca484c22ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": " only 2.36 million incapacity claimants anyway. [Interruption.] The Secretary of State says, \"Is this a serious debate?\" It certainly is, because the point that we are making—my hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammond) made it earlier—is that the Government will have to assist only 640,000 people, not the 1 million whom the Secretary of State said he would help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24a.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "baab32040aaa27fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.580.4", "colnum": "580", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "do not know how best to interpret the question. She knows that a major procurement programme is under way in terms of the Astute submarines, and the basing of that has been determined. There will be a long-term use of that particular capability. As we look towards future capabilities, we have set out what we intend to do about the replacement for Trident, if she was directing her question at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.580.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "baab32040aaa27fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is what the Government are doing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "the hon. Gentleman will be able to give any indication today as to whether any of the proposals in it attract his interest or support. I find it bizarre in the extreme that he seems to want us to continue with the existing arrangements, as most of us, irrespective of which party we belong to, know that that would serve only to trap people inside a failing system that is not delivering for parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "baab32040aaa27fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.615.2", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady is very lucky that she got a reply. Many hon. Members have told me in points of order that they have not received a reply. I do not know the quality of the hon. Lady's reply, but I hope that it was good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.615.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "baab32040aaa27fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.652.7", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for clarifying that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.652.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "baab32040aaa27fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "mbers who intervened earlier—that there are still real concerns about the impact of the proposal on families with children. Who is being asked to take the punishment for antisocial behaviour? Is it the children of an antisocial tenant, or perhaps even the parents or siblings of an antisocial teenager? We need a lot of answers on that point. I look forward to debating the matter in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "baab32040aaa27fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "ee sitting; a summer recess is coming up, during which we will all be busy working, and it would be good if we could have the draft regulations earlier rather than later. On which provisions will those drafts focus? I was talking to a specialist the other day, and she assured me that the Bill gives the Secretary of State—or all the Ministers in the Department—400 or so separate powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "baab32040aaa27fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Roger Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roger Berry", "preceding_text": "never arise—but I will still be looking for it, just in case. Ring-fencing funds for that purpose—which is apparently what the DFES does—might be a way around that. Where are the 1 million jobs to come from? I have only two minutes left, but let me make a few comments about the important role of employers. I attended a breakfast meeting with the hon. Member for Angus (Mr. Weir) .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "baab32040aaa27fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "on this.\" But in a parliamentary written answer to me on 16 June , the Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the hon. Member for Stirling (Mrs. McGuire) published figures—she should listen because she probably does not remember what she put in Hansard —showing that if there were no changes at all, in 10 years' time there would be only 2.36 million incapacity claimants anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "baab32040aaa27fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": " only 2.36 million incapacity claimants anyway. [Interruption.] The Secretary of State says, \"Is this a serious debate?\" It certainly is, because the point that we are making—my hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr. Hammond) made it earlier—is that the Government will have to assist only 640,000 people, not the 1 million whom the Secretary of State said he would help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-24", "file": "debates2006-07-24b.xml", "sha256": "baab32040aaa27fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.699.3", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Ruffley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Ruffley", "preceding_text": "This problem has particular relevance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-24b.699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "8a8a6b6d3e89fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for welcoming many of the proposals, which he left unspecified, while concentrating on those that he does not seem to welcome so much. May I rectify his view that we are blaming all this on the Opposition? Unusually, we are not. We have tried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "8a8a6b6d3e89fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "rcement resource and activity is new. The simplification and strengthening of the law that we outlined, including the new powers for deportations and inter-agency arrangements, is new. The new accountability arrangements to complement agency status with a single regulator are new. There is a new independent migration advisory committee. The introduction of the new commissioning model is new—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "8a8a6b6d3e89fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "ns were included by the latter means. I simply cannot understand why we separate Northern Ireland legislation from legislation intended for England and Wales where it is perfectly obvious that the same rules apply. However, we appreciate that that would require discussions between various Departments, so I rhetorically ask the Minister whether such a feat would be possible. I sincerely hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.768.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "8a8a6b6d3e89fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": " occasion when the Government are asking us to trust them without their having made specific legislative proposals or any specific modifications that could, through amendment, initiate the process that we are discussing in the Bill. I do not always trust the Government, but on this occasion I do, and I sincerely believe that the Minister is sincere and that his word is good. For that reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.768.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "8a8a6b6d3e89fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": " much more, but because the Government do not seek a single vote in Northern Ireland, they refuse to organise there and refuse to give those people of the UK the opportunity to vote Labour or join the Labour party in any meaningful sense. It is so frustrating. The Minister may not think so, but I have a lot of time for him and I believe that he has tried hard in very difficult circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "8a8a6b6d3e89fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "The Minister will see how strongly Liberal Democrats feel about this matter by the increasing number of Members on our Benches to listen to this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "8a8a6b6d3e89fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "3 miles down the road from Belleek in Fermanagh. It is just not humanly possible to implement this law. It is like introducing a law that says that Labour associations on the English border with Scotland are not allowed to make such requests of people across the border. The same point applies to Conservative or Liberal Democrat associations. That is the significance of this measure at local level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "8a8a6b6d3e89fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": " It is just not humanly possible to implement this law. It is like introducing a law that says that Labour associations on the English border with Scotland are not allowed to make such requests of people across the border. The same point applies to Conservative or Liberal Democrat associations. That is the significance of this measure at local level. [Interruption.] Does someone wish to intervene?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "8a8a6b6d3e89fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way a second time. I have great pleasure in inviting him to attend him the Durham miners' gala next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25b.xml", "sha256": "8a8a6b6d3e89fd8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Watson", "preceding_text": "ed to write letters to Jimmy Savile, but he never wrote back to me. So although Jim never fixed it for me, perhaps, between us, we can fix it for Jim. If we do manage to create a Bevin Boys badge, perhaps we can invite him to the House of Commons and present it to him personally. I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover would like to be at that event to share his personal views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25b.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Louth and Horncastle (Sir Peter Tapsell) was the concern that he expressed for the civilian population in Lebanon, as indeed people are concerned about the civilian population in Gaza. The hon. Member for Canterbury (Mr. Brazier) will appreciate that it creates difficulties when missiles are deliberately sited in civilian centres. That obviously leads to potential suffering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Kim Howells", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He is!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Kim Howells", "preceding_text": "I am not a military strategist, and I am not aware that the hon. Gentleman is either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for welcoming many of the proposals, which he left unspecified, while concentrating on those that he does not seem to welcome so much. May I rectify his view that we are blaming all this on the Opposition? Unusually, we are not. We have tried—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.740.0", "colnum": "740", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "rcement resource and activity is new. The simplification and strengthening of the law that we outlined, including the new powers for deportations and inter-agency arrangements, is new. The new accountability arrangements to complement agency status with a single regulator are new. There is a new independent migration advisory committee. The introduction of the new commissioning model is new—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.740.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.751.5", "colnum": "751", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether I will disappoint my hon. Friend, but by and large at the moment we do not take those decisions. We reserve the right to intervene, and I do not envisage that we would lose that right, but at the moment we try to use that sparingly, not least because it is one thing—a difficult thing—to have an indiscriminate number of letters sent in about cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.751.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Did he vote for you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Dowd", "preceding_text": "few years later, when I had been transmogrified into a Government Whip, that I was at a meeting with Sir Roger and some of his Clerk colleagues. As I went in to the room, I heard Roger say, \"Oh, it's my MP!\" I looked round the room to see to whom the remark was being addressed, and realised that it was me. It transpired that he lived not only in my constituency but in the same part of it as I did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "ad been included by the latter means. I simply cannot understand why we separate Northern Ireland legislation from legislation intended for England and Wales where it is perfectly obvious that the same rules apply. However, we appreciate that that would require discussions between various Departments, so I rhetorically ask the Minister whether such a feat would be possible. I sincerely hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.768.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": " occasion when the Government are asking us to trust them without their having made specific legislative proposals or any specific modifications that could, through amendment, initiate the process that we are discussing in the Bill. I do not always trust the Government, but on this occasion I do, and I sincerely believe that the Minister is sincere and that his word is good. For that reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.768.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "He is laughing with surprise and relief that on this one occasion we trust him —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.770.2", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kate Hoey", "preceding_text": " much more, but because the Government do not seek a single vote in Northern Ireland, they refuse to organise there and refuse to give those people of the UK the opportunity to vote Labour or join the Labour party in any meaningful sense. It is so frustrating. The Minister may not think so, but I have a lot of time for him and I believe that he has tried hard in very difficult circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.770.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "The Minister will see how strongly Liberal Democrats feel about this matter by the increasing number of Members on our Benches to listen to this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "3 miles down the road from Belleek in Fermanagh. It is just not humanly possible to implement this law. It is like introducing a law that says that Labour associations on the English border with Scotland are not allowed to make such requests of people across the border. The same point applies to Conservative or Liberal Democrat associations. That is the significance of this measure at local level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.779.2", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": " It is just not humanly possible to implement this law. It is like introducing a law that says that Labour associations on the English border with Scotland are not allowed to make such requests of people across the border. The same point applies to Conservative or Liberal Democrat associations. That is the significance of this measure at local level. [Interruption.] Does someone wish to intervene?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.779.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.780.2", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "I see that the Minister is starting to tidy his papers—he is already thinking of his holidays. Indeed, he probably has his swimming trunks on under his suit, ready to go —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.817.2", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "preceding_text": "with only half a chief executive, he decided not to take the job. That is the nature of what is going on in the NHS in my area. Of course, at the lowest level it is delivering brilliantly. People are being seen much sooner than ever before, all the bells and whistles are there in the heart department, and all sorts of wonderful things are happening. People are generally happy with their NHS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.817.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "BEVIN BOYS", "cue_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Roberta Blackman-Woods", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the Minister for giving way a second time. I have great pleasure in inviting him to attend the Durham miners gala next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-07-25", "file": "debates2006-07-25c.xml", "sha256": "d240e614b2560ca7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.848.2", "colnum": "848", "heading": "BEVIN BOYS", "cue_speaker": "Tom Watson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Watson", "preceding_text": "ed to write letters to Jimmy Savile, but he never wrote back to me. So although Jim never fixed it for me, perhaps, between us, we can fix it for Jim. If we do manage to create a Bevin Boys badge, perhaps we can invite him to the House of Commons and present it to him personally. I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover would like to be at that event to share his personal views—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-07-25c.848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.1.9", "colnum": "1", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Daily Sport \".", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "We have not had specific discussions with the Daily Star —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.1.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.4.3", "colnum": "4", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "As I said to the hon. Member for New Forest, West (Mr. Swayne) , at the end of the month, we will host an international summit to address precisely that problem. As things stand, such offshore gambling is beyond the regulatory reach of the UK. The United States has recently introduced new legislation to enforce existing powers. We can certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.4.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "I advise local authorities not to go down that course. There are three stages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.11.4", "colnum": "11", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ok in order to protect the vulnerable in our society. That is where it now stops—at one regional casino—unless the hon. Gentleman says to the Government that the Conservatives want to change the proposal. The proposal is very clear: one regional casino, and eight large and eight small. That is what we agreed before the election, and that is the basis on which the 2005 Act went through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.11.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.18.6", "colnum": "18", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree that bishops should be appointed on their spiritual and administrative attributes and skills, not time served? If so, what is the Church doing to recognise such skills earlier in those clergymen who have not served 20 or30 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.18.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "lding. It is absolutely true that we are under pressure, which is the reason why I am bringing in these measures. I hope that the situation has been managed over the past five or six months in a way that copes with the present pressures on prisons, as well as with the foreign national prisoner crisis. I hope that the hon. Gentlemen on the Opposition Benches—and they are all gentlemen —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "e that is necessary in order to ensure that we can give six months' notice so that people will be considered before release, there will be pressure on prison places. I would have hoped that the Opposition would accept that. But the truth of the matter is that while the right hon. Gentleman has been making a dreadful, dreadful fuss because we are a couple of hundred short of maximum capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "how many extra prison places the Liberals would build. I have already said 8,000 extra prison places, and I will continue to review the matter, but does he have a figure in mind? He would provide an unspecified number of extra prison places for fewer prisoners, although that is unspecified, too. That is a typical concoction from the Liberals, and \"vacuous\" is too substantial a word to describe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "l a word to describe it. [ Interruption. ] Conservative Members should not laugh, because they have not told us how many prison places they would provide. In the summer, the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden said that the Conservative party would build more prison places, but he was immediately put back in his box by the shadow Chancellor, who told him that there would be no commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": " is 190 cases per million inhabitants; in Sweden, it is90 cases per million, whereas we are down at 30 cases per million. Conservative Members believe that the technology has caught up. Other countries have shown what can be done and we will support new clause 1 if it is pressed to a vote. The hon. Member for Halifax (Mrs. Riordan) is not here and perhaps she will therefore not press new clause 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09c.xml", "sha256": "97c31a1842ebe958", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "That is a bizarre way of looking at cost. To a haulier, costs arise when their trucks are not running on the roads. If trucks are not run into, they carry on running, and the haulier does not have to bear the cost of having to repair them, will not have them off the road, and will not lose business. The Minister's way of looking at the issue is completely inverted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09c.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.1.9", "colnum": "1", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Daily Sport .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "We have not had specific discussions with the Daily Star —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.1.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.4.3", "colnum": "4", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "As I said to the hon. Member for New Forest, West (Mr. Swayne) , at the end of the month we will host an international summit to address precisely that problem. As things stand, such offshore gambling is beyond the regulatory reach of the UK. The United States has recently introduced new legislation to enforce existing powers. We can certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.4.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.6.2", "colnum": "6", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And The Times .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "As I think the Daily Mail pointed out today when it made that claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.6.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.10.3", "colnum": "10", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "I advise local authorities not to go down that course. There are three stages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.10.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.11.4", "colnum": "11", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "ok in order to protect the vulnerable in our society. That is where it now stops—at one regional casino—unless the hon. Gentleman says to the Government that the Conservatives want to change the proposal. The proposal is very clear: one regional casino, and eight large and eight small. That is what we agreed before the election, and that is the basis on which the 2005 Act went through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.11.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.18.6", "colnum": "18", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman agree that bishops should be appointed on their spiritual and administrative attributes and skills, not time served? If so, what is the Church doing to recognise such skills earlier in those clergymen who have not served 20 or 30 years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.18.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "lding. It is absolutely true that we are under pressure, which is the reason why I am bringing in these measures. I hope that the situation has been managed over the past five or six months in a way that copes with the present pressures on prisons, as well as with the foreign national prisoner crisis. I hope that the hon. Gentlemen on the Opposition Benches—and they are all gentlemen —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "e that is necessary in order to ensure that we can give six months' notice so that people will be considered before release, there will be pressure on prison places. I would have hoped that the Opposition would accept that. But the truth of the matter is that while the right hon. Gentleman has been making a dreadful, dreadful fuss because we are a couple of hundred short of maximum capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "how many extra prison places the Liberals would build. I have already said 8,000 extra prison places, and I will continue to review the matter, but does he have a figure in mind? He would provide an unspecified number of extra prison places for fewer prisoners, although that is unspecified, too. That is a typical concoction from the Liberals, and \"vacuous\" is too substantial a word to describe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.40.2", "colnum": "40", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "scribe it. [ Interruption. ] Conservative Members should not laugh, because they have not told us how many prison places they would provide. In the summer, the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) said that the Conservative party would build more prison places, but he was immediately put back in his box by the shadow Chancellor, who told him that there would be no commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.40.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "Because I did not anticipate that I would have the pleasure of a question from her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rosemary McKenna", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rosemary McKenna", "preceding_text": "Having sat in Committee, I appreciate how much work had been done on amendments in the meantime. Most organisations, certainly the Scottish Campaign against Irresponsible Drivers, are delighted at the work that has already been done, but one matter has not been taken into account in any of the amendments or new clauses. Will you comment on the fact that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "is 190 cases per million inhabitants; in Sweden, it is 90 cases per million, whereas we are down at 30 cases per million. Conservative Members believe that the technology has caught up. Other countries have shown what can be done and we will support new clause 1 if it is pressed to a vote. The hon. Member for Halifax (Mrs. Riordan) is not here and perhaps she will therefore not press new clause 5.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-09", "file": "debates2006-10-09d.xml", "sha256": "6a36d77163a0b99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "That is a bizarre way of looking at cost. To hauliers, costs arise when their trucks are not running on the roads. If trucks are not run into, they carry on running, and the haulier does not have to bear the cost of having to repair them, will not have them off the road, and will not lose business. The Minister's way of looking at the issue is completely inverted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-09d.95.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "016f2e8ce9b78a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10b.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " the men and women of 16 Air Assault Brigade, who are coming home, having been relieved by 3 Commando. I shall be visiting them tomorrow to thank them in person, but today on behalf of the whole House I should like formally to record our recognition of the bravery, professionalism and sacrifice of that brigade and all those from across the three services who supported them during their tour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10b.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10b.xml", "sha256": "016f2e8ce9b78a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10b.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "their personal or constituency experiences to the benefit of the debate, and they have reflected the public's need to see somebody held responsible for terrible accidents. Some of those accidents have led to the deaths of perhaps one or two people, and some, like the Herald of Free Enterprise at Zeebrugge, which was mentioned by one of the Labour Members with shipping or maritime experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10b.261.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "b0974e5027f6cd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Davidson", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that the Chancellor is to be commended for many things, one of which is his view that EU state aid rules and regional aid rules are best repatriated, and that this is a classic example of where very little is added by having state aid rules and regional aid handled by Brussels? Far better to have it returned to member states.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.143.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "b0974e5027f6cd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angus MacNeil", "preceding_text": " million currently being wasted on restructuring would have been better spent on fare reductions, especially considering that some articulated lorries spend £1,000 on a return fare to the outer Hebrides? Should not every opportunity be taken during the restructuring to relocate Caledonian MacBrayne's headquarters to Stornoway, Tarbet, Lochmaddy, Lochboisdale or Castlebay, or all those ports?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "b0974e5027f6cd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.145.0", "colnum": "145", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "at is why the European habitats directive must be taken into consideration before planning consent is given, and I am sure that he welcomes that EU regulation, as he welcomes all EU regulations. However, that highlights the need to take these decisions on a case-by-case basis based on the evidence, and not to adopt a strategy of calling for a moratorium on all wind- farm developments in Scotland .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.145.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "b0974e5027f6cd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "of the outstanding service that was provided, although the support for the new security regime has not been universal. When I was travelling with my four-year-old son a couple of weeks back, he had to take off his wellington boots at the security comb. He asked, \"Why do I have to take off my wellies?\" and the security guard replied, \"Because your dad's making everybody take off their wellingtons.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "b0974e5027f6cd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne McIntosh", "preceding_text": "ent this afternoon that the question will be dealt with of insurance cover for houses on functional flood plains that are prone to flooding? Thirsk, particularly Finkle street, has been flooded twice in less than five years, and a particular business and a number of residents have been told that there is simply no insurance cover available. Will the Minister plug that loophole with the guidelines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "b0974e5027f6cd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.154.0", "colnum": "154", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Angela Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Angela Smith", "preceding_text": "I sometimes wonder about Conservative policy. The Conservatives share in our demand for, and recognition of the need for, more housing, but wherever they are, they say no to more housing. We have to ensure that local planning authorities have all —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.154.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "b0974e5027f6cd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.196.2", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ere prosecuted on the basis of isolated or unrelated management failings at relatively low levels of the organisation. For that reason, the new offence requires there to have been gross failure by senior managers. Again, I understand that people will want to discuss that point during our deliberations and we shall always be prepared to undertake such scrutiny and will be able to go some way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.196.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "b0974e5027f6cd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I am not able to give legal advice to the hon. Gentleman off the top of my head, but I shall risk advising him that I think that he is probably wrong in respect of the health trust, but not on the police. However, I will write to him if my current advice is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-10", "file": "debates2006-10-10c.xml", "sha256": "b0974e5027f6cd85", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "s should not be built into the Bill. Speaking as chairman of the all-party group on corporate governance, my concern about going down the individual liability route is that we might find ourselves tying up major corporates in an excessive amount of red tape and weighing them down with an obsession with seeking to protect themselves from risks that they are already dealing with in most cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-10c.254.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "dc9badf0bfacc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the vale of Aylesbury?", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "First, as the hon. Gentleman knows because I have written to him on this point, I have already ensured that the Nuffield speech and language unit—an issue that he has specifically raised on many occasions—will continue to treat patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.318.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "dc9badf0bfacc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "hanging for greater efficiency. At Prime Minister's questions earlier today, the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Michael Jabez Foster) said that, if we do not like what is to happen to our accident and emergency department, who do we ask? What do we do about it? There is only one person who has been anywhere near a ballot box whom people can ask, and she is sitting on the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "dc9badf0bfacc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": " to draw attention tothe extraordinary statement by the Leader of the Opposition on Monday, quoted again in the Conservative website news story: \"So my message to the Government is clear: the NHS matters too much to be treated like a political football.\" Wonderful stuff, is it not? I also have the Conservative party's NHS campaign pack, which, I understand, is about to appear on its website—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "dc9badf0bfacc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": ". It is to be launched on Saturday by the Conservative party—I presume that it will be the non-political health service football that will be launched. That pack is very good and includes materials that can be purchased for action day, graphics to download and a template press release. All people have to do is take out the italics and put in how awful the NHS is in their part of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "dc9badf0bfacc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "Further to that press release—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "dc9badf0bfacc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "uth Cambridgeshire. That e-mail stated: \"Last week, NHS Employers contacted 18 trusts which had identified potential redundancies. Across all the organisations, the original estimate of the number of posts to be lost was 7,900, with the DTI subsequently notified of 3,999 jobs at risk. The number of actual redundancies (voluntary and compulsory) is 766. Of these 540 are in two organisations\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "dc9badf0bfacc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "albeit not today in her rather weak speech, which did not match the strength of many Labour Members' contributions—that outputs have not increased in line with increases in resources. We have heard a great deal about acute hospital performance. In the six years to 1997, the number of hospital treatments in the NHS increased by 26 per cent. Productivity was improving sharply during the 1990s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.388.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "dc9badf0bfacc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "n people still remain on waiting lists, which none of us in the House wants to see. Health inequalities have been mentioned several times. I do not want to be rude to Labour Members, but there seems to be a certain level of complacency about the fact that health inequalities are at their widest since Victorian times and 10 community hospitals have closed in the first six months of this year alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11b.xml", "sha256": "dc9badf0bfacc714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "pital. The Secretary of State will be aware that her predecessor visited Hatfield before the election when a Health Minister held my seat with a dodgy majority. The then Secretary of State for Health promised us a £0.5 billion new private finance initiative hospital at Hatfield. What happened? When I defeated the incumbent Labour Health Minister, the plan for that hospital disappeared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11b.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.288.1", "colnum": "288", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "David Hanson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Hanson", "preceding_text": "I certainly understand the hon. Gentleman's point. I wish to see more people from the Protestant community employed in the sectors that he mentioned. I ultimately want to see people treated as equals and not on the basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.288.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is far too much noise in the Chamber and that is unfair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.290.3", "colnum": "290", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware of how damaging it would be to the prospects for restoration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.291.6", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"But.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Jabez Foster", "preceding_text": "The excellent accident and emergency and maternity services at Hastings Conquest hospital are testimony to the massive improvement under Labour's national health service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.291.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.291.8", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "There we have it: no buts, just cuts. I join the Prime Minister in sending our condolences to the families of those soldiers who have given their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past few months. We must make sure that they did not die in vain. The Home Office has explained that it is moving prisoners at risk of escaping to open prisons. The Home Secretary is apparently happy with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.291.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "As the Home Secretary has just pointed out, absconding is at its lowest for 10 years, so the idea that we are going to put the public at risk is absurd. No people will be put in open prisons who are a risk to the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.292.4", "colnum": "292", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary is, very sensibly, making sure that we can ensure that all those foreign secretaries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.293.0", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ealth service. Since the Government came to power, there are 250,000 extra people employed in the national health service. Let me point out to the right hon. Gentleman, since he is launching a campaign on Saturday about cuts in the national health service, that his policy proposal earlier this week was for an independent commissioning board that would apparently be free to commission all services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.293.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me just say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister has gone on too much about the Conservative party's campaign document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.293.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Yes, but as the hon. Gentleman will know, the reason being put forward for the changes is not that they will diminish community facilities but that they will provide them in a different way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.305.2", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Tooting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am interested in what the hon. Gentleman says. He will forgive me if I am wrong, but I think that his local hospital is part of the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. Is that right?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.305.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.305.4", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I cannot, of course, make that promise. How could I make it? If the Secretary of State and the Government would care to call an election tomorrow and disappear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " let me refer him to the NHS Confederation, which is in no mood simply to support my party on this matter. It wants to minimise the effect of what might happen and it has issued a briefing. Labour Members seem to be reading only from the Labour Whip crib sheet, when what they should be doing is reading the briefings they have been receiving from organisations that know something about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. He is making some excellent points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "I am happy to be able to agree with my hon. Friend's first sentiment, but on Alzheimer's drugs I cannot give him the assurance for which he asks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "To some extent, my hon. Friend and I share that hospital. Patients from my constituency go to Hinchingbrooke hospital. That anticipates something that I was going to say. It is disgraceful that \"reviews\"—in inverted commas—should be taking place that are in fact driven by finance. The implication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.310.2", "colnum": "310", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "rculatory diseases and the cancer death rate fell slightly faster than in the seven years since that date. The right hon. Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) , the Chairman of the Health Committee, made a point earlier about the use of the health service as a political football. Well, a good starting point would be to tell the whole truth about what is going on. Yesterday, the Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dawn Butler", "preceding_text": "I agree that we should be honest about the debate. Part of the reason why death rates for cancer and heart disease are falling is that our Government have set targets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the Vale of Aylesbury?", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "First, as the hon. Gentleman knows because I have written to him on this point, I have already ensured that the Nuffield speech and language unit—an issue that he has specifically raised on many occasions—will continue to treat patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.319.6", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "on to complain that \"some areas of Manchester receive 66 per cent. more NHS funding per head than some areas of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire\". Let me tell the House about some areas of Manchester—north Manchester, for instance, where a baby is twice as likely to be stillborn and 10 times more likely to die before the age of one as a baby in south-east Hertfordshire or South Cambridgeshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.319.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.319.6", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "s more likely to die before the age of one as a baby in south-east Hertfordshire or South Cambridgeshire. [ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Beverley and Holderness (Mr. Stuart) , from a sedentary position, and the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire complain that inequality in infant mortality is widening, but they want to take the money away from areas where infant mortality is worst —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.319.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.321.8", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Just let me answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.321.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "anging for greater efficiency. At Prime Minister's questions earlier today, the hon. Member for Hastings and Rye (Michael Jabez Foster) said that, if we do not like what is to happen to our accident and emergency department, whom do we ask? What do we do about it? There is only one person who has been anywhere near a ballot box whom people can ask, and she is sitting on the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will find that his Government have reviewed the formula in the past few years. It is wrong systematically to say across the south of the England that more money will be spent there without accepting the corollary of that choice. The Conservative party is saying, \"Health cuts for the north\", which is official Conservative party policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.336.3", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "Conservative party is saying, \"Health cuts for the north\", which is official Conservative party policy. [ Interruption. ] The shadow Secretary of State has said that the board would be independent, which means that he cannot guarantee delivery. His argument is: \"Vote for me, and we will give more money to the south, but only if the independent board agrees to do so.\" Will he clarify the situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.336.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Steve Webb", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Steve Webb", "preceding_text": "Tory candidates who are campaigning for a change to the formula to give more money to the south cannot be sure that it would happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "to draw attention to the extraordinary statement by the Leader of the Opposition on Monday, quoted again in the Conservative website news story: \"So my message to the Government is clear: the NHS matters too much to be treated like a political football.\" Wonderful stuff, is it not? I also have the Conservative party's NHS campaign pack, which, I understand, is about to appear on its website—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.338.5", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": ". It is to be launched on Saturday by the Conservative party—I presume that it will be the non-political health service football that will be launched. That pack is very good and includes materials that can be purchased for action day, graphics to download and a template press release. All people have to do is take out the italics and put in how awful the NHS is in their part of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.338.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "Further to that press release—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.339.3", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "uth Cambridgeshire. That e-mail stated: \"Last week, NHS Employers contacted 18 trusts which had identified potential redundancies. Across all the organisations, the original estimate of the number of posts to be lost was 7,900, with the DTI subsequently notified of 3,999 jobs at risk. The number of actual redundancies (voluntary and compulsory) is 766. Of these 540 are in two organisations\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.353.7", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Prentice", "preceding_text": "ent and public involvement forum is against it, general practitioners and others in the medical community are against it, and local people are against it, yet there is a possibility that tomorrow the overview and scrutiny committee may not recognise the strength of public opinion. That is why my friend and I will go up to Blackburn to speak to that committee, regardless of what the Whip says here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.353.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ian Austin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Austin", "preceding_text": " growth than under the Government's plans. This year, the difference between the Opposition's plans and the Government's plans would be £17 billion, and it would be bigger in the future. NHS expenditure is almost a fifth of total managed expenditure, so a £17 billion cut in public spending applied across the board would mean cuts to the NHS of at least £3 billion this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.388.5", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "albeit not today in her rather weak speech, which did not match the strength of many Labour Members' contributions—that outputs have not increased in line with increases in resources. We have heard a great deal about acute hospital performance. In the six years to 1997, the number of hospital treatments in the NHS increased by 26 per cent. Productivity was improving sharply during the 1990s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.388.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "n people still remain on waiting lists, which none of us in the House wants to see. Health inequalities have been mentioned several times. I do not want to be rude to Labour Members, but there seems to be a certain level of complacency about the fact that health inequalities are at their widest since Victorian times and 10 community hospitals have closed in the first six months of this year alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.391.3", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Meg Hillier", "preceding_text": "as a full-time job. It is clear that that team has helped those people to get back on track and into normal life. The 4Sight group involves users of the City and Hackney centre for mental health. Its members work with a drama group to develop plays about their experiences, which are now being used to train staff. The Government can learn from that experience with regard to the rest of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.391.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-11", "file": "debates2006-10-11c.xml", "sha256": "2f02fe0c3db3327b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Opposition Day — [18th Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Grant Shapps", "preceding_text": "pital. The Secretary of State will be aware that her predecessor visited Hatfield before the election when a Health Minister held my seat with a dodgy majority. The then Secretary of State for Health promised us a £0.5 billion new private finance initiative hospital at Hatfield. What happened? When I defeated the incumbent Labour Health Minister, the plan for that hospital disappeared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-11c.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-12", "file": "debates2006-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "50f03fc3d256a4f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12c.438.6", "colnum": "438", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jim Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Knight", "preceding_text": "I passionately believe that it is important to have kitchen facilities in our schools, given that I represent a Dorset seat where the Tory county council closed the kitchens some 20 years. We do not have any kitchens in schools in Dorset and I am therefore looking forward to the investment, which will come. When we announced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12c.438.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-12", "file": "debates2006-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "50f03fc3d256a4f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12c.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to say that the fundamental uncertainty faced by the Post Office arises from the extraordinary pace of change in the introductionof information technology .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12c.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-12", "file": "debates2006-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "50f03fc3d256a4f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12c.493.5", "colnum": "493", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is an extremely distinguished former Chief Secretary and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, and he has zeroedin exactly on the point. There is a subsidy, which is £600 million to £700 million, and it is going to non-nuclear renewables.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12c.493.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-12", "file": "debates2006-10-12c.xml", "sha256": "50f03fc3d256a4f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12c.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will let me, I should now finish. His Front-Bench colleague, the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle, has time to make his own speech, whereas I have overextended mine. The hon. Gentleman has already had one go, and I am sure that he will make the winding-up speech, so he will have his own shot at this. Let me conclude on the energy review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12c.494.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-12", "file": "debates2006-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "7f017a02f1dfeaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SKILLS", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "No. The fundamental question is whether that strategy was right. The hon. Gentleman is right that there has been a drop, but there has also been an improvement in attainment by those students who have continued to study languages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-12", "file": "debates2006-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "7f017a02f1dfeaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to tell the hon. Gentleman that I can give him immediate satisfaction on his request for a debate. Care of the Liberal Democrats, there will be a debate on Monday, so they were obviously listening to somebody. The Post Office is having to cope with changes quite beyond its control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-12", "file": "debates2006-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "7f017a02f1dfeaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to say that the fundamental uncertainty faced by the Post Office arises from the extraordinary pace of change in the introduction of information technology .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-12", "file": "debates2006-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "7f017a02f1dfeaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.461.3", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "May I say to the hon. Gentleman that it is totally unacceptable for any of us to start parodying the position taken by as distinguished and senior a judge as the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips? I happen to know the Lord Chief Justice, as I knew his predecessors, and he is as concerned as anybody in this House or the other place about protecting the public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.461.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-12", "file": "debates2006-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "7f017a02f1dfeaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.493.5", "colnum": "493", "heading": "WELFARE REFORM BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is an extremely distinguished former Chief Secretary and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, and he has zeroed in exactly on the point. There is a subsidy, which is £600 million to £700 million, and it is going to non-nuclear renewables.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.493.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-12", "file": "debates2006-10-12d.xml", "sha256": "7f017a02f1dfeaea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.494.1", "colnum": "494", "heading": "WELFARE REFORM BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will let me, I should now finish. His Front-Bench colleague, the hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle, has time to make his own speech, whereas I have overextended mine. The hon. Gentleman has already had one go, and I am sure that he will make the winding-up speech, so he will have his own shot at this. Let me conclude on the energy review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-12d.494.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-16", "file": "debates2006-10-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8eddeeaf2883003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.565.6", "colnum": "565", "heading": "WORK AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that reply —[ Interruption. ] Please excuse my breathlessness. [ Interruption. ] It is not that exciting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.565.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-16", "file": "debates2006-10-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8eddeeaf2883003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.585.2", "colnum": "585", "heading": "LEADER OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ement are in close association. It can continue to do so for as long as it wishes; that is entirely its right. What is not its right is to seek partisan advantage by forcing through changes in the financing regime, which would have the effect of wholly disadvantaging one political party and forcing changes in our constitution, when no such changes have been forced on the Conservative party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-16", "file": "debates2006-10-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8eddeeaf2883003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Edward Davey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Davey", "preceding_text": "e with us that that will give employees an incentive to perform well and improve productivity, as their future will be tied to that of Royal Mail. The Government balked at that modest proposal, and we must ask why. I think that that is to do with the Communication Workers Union, and the 213 Labour Back Benchers who signed the early-day motion saying that they should not accept the proposal —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-16", "file": "debates2006-10-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8eddeeaf2883003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jim Fitzpatrick", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman and I had this discussion when I appeared before the Trade and Industry Select Committee. He is not going to tempt me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-16", "file": "debates2006-10-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8eddeeaf2883003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Danny Alexander", "preceding_text": "or vulnerable groups and, in some cases, threatening the long-term sustainability of the community as a whole. The Government's policy seems to be to allow the life of the post office network to drain away rather than to kill it with a direct blow. Perhaps it is a Blairite conspiracy to make the first decision on Prime Minister Brown's desk the elimination of much of the post office network—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.649.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-16", "file": "debates2006-10-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8eddeeaf2883003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.679.4", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"This is a speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Huhne", "preceding_text": "ositions of the hon. Gentleman's party and the Liberal Democrats. The director of Greenpeace said that the Liberal Democrats had set the gold standard with their policy on green taxes. Despite the somewhat ribald terms in which the hon. Gentleman is describing our policy, I think it worth considering the words of an impartial judge with no partisan axes to grind. Secondly, I would point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.679.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-16", "file": "debates2006-10-16d.xml", "sha256": "f8eddeeaf2883003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.687.8", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Opposition Day — [19th allotted day]", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "ey have promised depth and delivered green fluff—presumably inspired by their new logo. The truth is that, for 30 years, the Liberals and then the Liberal Democrats have been the greenest party in Parliament. For many years, we were berated by members of the Conservative party and described as sandal-wearing bearded loonies for saying such things, but the truth is that we were simply —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-16d.687.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-17", "file": "debates2006-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "0b68e457a35d38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-17a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I agree wholeheartedly with the comments of my hon. Friend the Member for Grantham and Stamford (Mr. Davies) . As my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Sleaford and North Hykeham (Mr. Hogg) said, a Bill as big as this—it is bigger than the Leicestershire telephone book—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-17a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-17", "file": "debates2006-10-17a.xml", "sha256": "0b68e457a35d38eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-17a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "ton (Mr. Duncan) , the shadow Secretary of State, said. The Government's treatment of it is offensive—to me as an individual, although my personal feelings do not matter, but also to Parliament and, more importantly, to the people who sent us here. Their approach speaks volumes about their attitude to the electorate and to good governance. The sooner we get rid of this lot, the better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-17a.751.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-17", "file": "debates2006-10-17b.xml", "sha256": "f9679346d953f307", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-17b.729.0", "colnum": "729", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Keith Vaz", "preceding_text": "use of the cost involved. Bearing in mind the fact that the Department spent £700,000 on consultants in 1997, and that last year it spent more than £10 million on them, is it not time that Ministers got a grip on the issue and told Parliament and the taxpayer what the consultants are being used to accomplish—especially the gentleman who was paid £2,100 for each day of work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-17b.729.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-18", "file": "debates2006-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "b20e14c9ac4ddb21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "We can certainly examine all the options. We should and we will. I hope, however, that the right hon. Gentleman will not tell post offices that he will spend even more money on Government subsidy than we are spending. I might just point out that when we came to office nothing was really being done to support rural post offices. We have spent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.871.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-18", "file": "debates2006-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "b20e14c9ac4ddb21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I totally understand the point that my hon. Friend makes, but it is just worth pointing out that we have substantially increased investment in social housing; not all of it is provided in the traditional way, but we will continue to do that. It is only as a result of this Government actually putting the money into social housing when we came to office that, for example, many elderly people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-18", "file": "debates2006-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "b20e14c9ac4ddb21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.892.9", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that Ministers would have addressed that question themselves before tabling amendments. If the Minister for Industry and the Regions has not consulted business, will she agree today to meet all the key stakeholders who will be affected by the amendments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.892.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-18", "file": "debates2006-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "b20e14c9ac4ddb21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Howarth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's question, asked from a sedentary position, shows that it is a big issue in the House as to which party is the real Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-18", "file": "debates2006-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "b20e14c9ac4ddb21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "w; time will tell. What I do know is that the provision represents an effort in a very difficult area to meet the genuine concerns of people who are desperately worried about terrorism from animal rights protesters, for example. I share that concern, but no doubt the Solicitor-General will advise us in due course that there will be some form of review of the court's decision along the usual lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-18", "file": "debates2006-10-18b.xml", "sha256": "b20e14c9ac4ddb21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.993.1", "colnum": "993", "heading": "PEUGEOT (COVENTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "and invest in research, development and innovation. We have to build on the strengths of the west midlands, which is at the heart of manufacturing industry. I also feel optimistic about the automotive industry. It gets such an undeserved bad press. We are producing more cars in the UK today than at any time through the '80s. One has to look back to the '70s. Production is about £1.6 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-18b.993.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-19", "file": "debates2006-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b8a85e013133bea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19a.1017.3", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "aid that if the House failed to pass that legislation \"The consequences would be dire.\"—[ Official Report ,17 October 2006; Vol. 450, c. 846 .] Will the right hon. Gentleman review the use of secondary legislation and make a statement to the House? The Leader of the House has in the past said that he wants to make sure that parliamentary questionsare answered in a helpful and timely fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19a.1017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-19", "file": "debates2006-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b8a85e013133bea9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am almost dumbstruck. More does need to be done in respect of violent crime, and it would be extremely helpful if the Liberal Democrats voted for such proposals. They have failed to vote for almost every measure that would help to control crime in the past 10 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19a.1025.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-19", "file": "debates2006-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "5e0e4db7bb30b104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19b.1017.3", "colnum": "1017", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "d that if the House failed to pass that legislation \"The consequences would be dire.\"—[ Official Report , 17 October 2006; Vol. 450, c. 846 .] Will the right hon. Gentleman review the use of secondary legislation and make a statement to the House? The Leader of the House has in the past said that he wants to make sure that parliamentary questions are answered in a helpful and timely fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19b.1017.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-19", "file": "debates2006-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "5e0e4db7bb30b104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19b.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I am almost dumbstruck. More does need to be done in respect of violent crime, and it would be extremely helpful if the Liberal Democrats voted for such proposals. They have failed to vote for almost every measure that would help to control crime in the past 10 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19b.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-19", "file": "debates2006-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "5e0e4db7bb30b104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19b.1036.5", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Hodge", "preceding_text": "I find that rather a tenuous point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19b.1036.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-19", "file": "debates2006-10-19b.xml", "sha256": "5e0e4db7bb30b104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19b.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Justine Greening", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Justine Greening", "preceding_text": "I would counter that the Minister's argument is far more spurious than mine. The offence of murder does not change everybody else's behaviour towards one another, but the proposed auditor offence will change the behaviour —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-19b.1050.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-23", "file": "debates2006-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "a208a08ff7f61576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-23b.1285.3", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Parmjit Dhanda", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Parmjit Dhanda", "preceding_text": "escribing the position around \"frequency\". I said that someone had to carry out a check to ensure that a person lay within the period condition—whether it be more than two days within every 30 days, or within an overnight stay or working one day a month. If a court were to decide that a person had not done the job properly with respect to the frequency criteria that it had established—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-23b.1285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-23", "file": "debates2006-10-23b.xml", "sha256": "a208a08ff7f61576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-23b.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Rob Marris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rob Marris", "preceding_text": "elieve it does—the consequences that I have outlined. I urge the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham to reconsider the amendment. In his intervention, he referred to his criticism of my hon. Friend the Minister for subjectivity. As I pointed out earlier, the hon. Gentleman has criticised the Minister for something that was entirely subjective, but two wrongs do not make a right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-23b.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6818b68631814aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24a.1366.2", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Gentleman that they have received a reply. The Secretary of State wrote to the individuals concerned last week, explaining precisely the process that NICE has been through. That reply has been sent, and was dated 23 October .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24a.1366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6818b68631814aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24a.1372.3", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "It was a decision that Parliament made when we decided to devolve different powers to Scotland. In fact, we have the shortest waiting times on record; we are working to reach our 18-week target. Fewer people are dying from cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke than ever before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24a.1372.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "e6818b68631814aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24a.1498.0", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object. No day named.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "rectly in regard to the individual circumstances that he has described, but I shall be more than happy to discuss the matter with him in due course. Question put and agreed to. Adjourned accordingly at nineteen minutes to Eleven o'clock. Correction Official Report, 20 October 2006 : In col. 1200, first Bill, delete \"Madam Deputy Speaker: Not moved\" and insert—\" Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24a.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1364.0", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "In making public statements, it is extremely important that we do not seek to mislead and give patients false expectations of what is available in other parts of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1364.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1366.2", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Gentleman that they have received a reply. The Secretary of State wrote to the individuals concerned last week, explaining precisely the process that NICE has been through. That reply has been sent and was dated 23 October .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1366.4", "colnum": "1366", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": " by one of his colleagues about Alzheimer's drugs and he said: \"Frankly, it is my opinion that in an independent national health service such decisions must be made independently\".—[ Official Report, 11 October 2006, Vol. 450, c. 307 .] I would view that as an endorsement of the NICE process, where people who are expert in the conditions take the decisions. The hon. Gentleman does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1366.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1370.7", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Anne Main", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Steal?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Anne Main", "preceding_text": "St. Albans is nowhere near Hull, but the issue is the same. I have written to the Secretary of State about the inequalities in provision that prevent equality in health outcomes in my constituency, where district nurses are in short supply. They seem to have to beg, borrow or even steal supplies to treat patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1370.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1372.3", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "It was a decision that Parliament made when we decided to devolve different powers to Scotland. In fact, we have the shortest waiting times on record and we are working to reach our 18-week target. Fewer people are dying from cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke than ever before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1373.2", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I reject the hon. Gentleman's assertion. I do not believe —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "I have not seen the IPPR report yet, so I cannot commit myself to it, but it is important that we are able to have a mature debate about sex and relationships education. That education has to be age-appropriate, but it is part and parcel of how we support young people as they grow up so that they can make informed decisions at appropriate points in their lives and be confident adults.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1392.0", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Redwood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Redwood", "preceding_text": "The problem is that although many Conservative Members were tolerant and sympathetic to the Government when the provision was presented as something to do with terrorism, in the case of alleged white collar crime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1395.1", "colnum": "1395", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ryan", "preceding_text": "I can indeed provide my hon. Friend with some examples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "e more slowly. The hon. Gentleman should understand that there is no reciprocity between the obligations imposed upon the United States as a requesting jurisdiction to Britain, as compared with Britain's obligations when requesting extradition from the United States. So internally, within the treaty, there is no reciprocity. There is no balance. There is no meeting of obligations. That is point 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "973 treaty, we had to demonstrate probable cause in the United States; the US had to demonstrate a prima facie case in this country. We all accept—there is no controversy about this—that those were not exactly equal terms, but to all intents and purposes the courts on both sides of the Atlantic treated them as equal tests. They were both based on evidence. Now we have a different test.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1405.3", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "Let me try again. As I said before the Home Secretary interrupted—I was delighted that he did—the tests that we had to apply on both sides of the Atlantic were evidence-based, and the evidence could be contested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1405.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1406.2", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "It would help if the hon. and learned Gentleman understood English as well as he understands law. I was not saying that there is no reciprocity; I was saying that there is no need for identity in order to have reciprocity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1412.0", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Denham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Denham", "preceding_text": "llow for this possibility—that it would be more appropriate for him to be prosecuted in another jurisdiction. The criteria by which that important set of judgments was made should be made much more public than they are at the moment. This whole story suggests that there is a great deal that is not really very good about the way in which we conclude treaties and scrutinise them in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Boris Johnson", "preceding_text": "ciple that we are talking about applies to all British citizens irrespective of where they come from, what constituency they happen to live in or their walk of life. I absolutely agree with him that that applies equally to Gary McKinnon, Barbar Ahmad and everyone else on whose behalf we have been lobbied. I congratulate the Government on finally persuading the US Senate to ratify the treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1426.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1456.2", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "Moving on slightly from that point, does the Minister accept that the mergers discussion postponed precisely the sort of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-24", "file": "debates2006-10-24b.xml", "sha256": "7d72afcb836302cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1478.0", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I reinforce what my hon. Friend has just said?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-24b.1478.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "8efa2c9c8d82f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25a.1523.0", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "se to do, in close consultation with the Department of Trade and Industry and other interested parties, not least the Department for Communities and Local Government. As I said, the NDA was set up only two years ago by this House, so the hon. Gentleman's suggestion that we should have yet another new body, which would further complicate an already very difficult set of issues,does not seem —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25a.1523.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "8efa2c9c8d82f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, but that is not quite my point. The formulation, \"religion and belief\", is now widely accepted and understood in a variety of different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "8efa2c9c8d82f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25a.1572.5", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "I hate to carp on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25a.1572.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "8efa2c9c8d82f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25a.1591.4", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "le a little further before doing so. I am worried about the inconsistency of ministerial statements about this matter. If a law or a provision in it that has given no trouble is suddenly removed, Ministers' words become important. On Second Reading, the Under-Secretary said that removing the presumption of public benefit would \"raise the bar\" on religious, educational and poverty relief charities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25a.1591.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "8efa2c9c8d82f615", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25a.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "pose—though I hesitate to use that rather new Labour phrase. The right hon. Lady said, \"If it ain't broke, don't fix it\", but the overwhelming consensus in the charity sector is that current charity law is broke, at least to the extent that the Bill deals with many areas of charity law and is designed to reform and improve them. That is precisely why it has had such widespread support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25a.1600.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1510.1", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Over the past few years, according to the National Audit Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1511.0", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "al health service, in education and, yes, in prisons. But the right hon. Gentleman's policy, which is to share the proceeds of growth between investment and tax cuts—that is his policy, is it not?—would mean cuts in the health service, and in prisons and in education. If he wants to debate the national health service, there are not 20,000 jobs being cut from the national health service", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1511.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1513.0", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "For almost a year, we have been pushing repeatedly for a climate change Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1513.3", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "e to ensure that we get the reduction in CO2 emissions that we need—remember, this country will meet and exceed its Kyoto targets and will be one of the very few countries in the world to do so. Such proposals must also be entirely compatible with the interests of business and consumers. As for the tax proposals that the right hon. Gentleman introduced last week, if I may very quickly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1513.3", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ess and consumers. As for the tax proposals that the right hon. Gentleman introduced last week, if I may very quickly— [Interruption.] I am citing this because it is an interesting example of how a Government should not make policy. In the morning, he was saying that green taxes on pollution will rise to pay for reductions. By the afternoon, he was saying, or his shadow Chancellor was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1523.0", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "e to do, in close consultation with the Department of Trade and Industry and other interested parties, not least the Department for Communities and Local Government. As I said, the NDA was set up only two years ago by this House, so the hon. Gentleman's suggestion that we should have yet another new body, which would further complicate an already very difficult set of issues, does not seem —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1526.2", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jamie Reed", "preceding_text": "its intermediate-level waste and all its high-level waste, I comprehensively welcome today's recommendations and the work done by the Secretary of State. For the best part of 10 years, one of the principal obstacles to the effective implementation of radioactive waste policy in this country has been the existence of Nirex, which, as an organisation, is without credibility or trustworthiness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1560.4", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Levitt", "preceding_text": "Was it? Oh, right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1560.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, but that is not quite my point. The formulation, \"religion and belief\", is now widely accepted and understood in a variety of different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1568.6", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it would be excluded, because it would be brought in by the \"mental\" element of the measure. I am sure that driving a car around a track involves mental exertion, so it would probably be brought in by the new provision if those undertaking that activity could demonstrate that it contributed to the promotion of good health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1568.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1568.6", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Turner", "preceding_text": "hurdle. My concern is simply that the Charity Commission appears to be applying a definition that has emerged from a desire to include sport. It has been asked, \"How can we get sport charitable status?\" It has thought about that and said, \"Well, it does promote good health, so we shall slide it in under that.\" However, the Bill was introduced without a definition involving the promotion of health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1568.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1572.2", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Miliband", "preceding_text": "As I tried to explain earlier, we are repeating it partly for the sake of clarity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1572.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1591.4", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ann Widdecombe", "preceding_text": "le further before doing so. I am worried about the inconsistency of ministerial statements about this matter. If a law or a provision in it that has given no trouble is suddenly removed, Ministers' words become important. On Second Reading, the Parliamentary-Secretary said that removing the presumption of public benefit would \"raise the bar\" for religious, educational and poverty relief charities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1591.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-25", "file": "debates2006-10-25b.xml", "sha256": "505fd7d512c7637a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1600.2", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Martin Horwood", "preceding_text": "pose—though I hesitate to use that rather new Labour phrase. The right hon. Lady said, \"If it ain't broke, don't fix it,\" but the overwhelming consensus in the charity sector is that current charity law is broke, at least to the extent that the Bill deals with many areas of charity law and is designed to reform and improve them. That is precisely why it has had such widespread support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-25b.1600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7e5519c1f0c5a015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1642.3", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cuts!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that the hon. Gentleman would support what we are doing; in other words, what we are doing is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7e5519c1f0c5a015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1646.8", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I do agree, and I only wish that the shadow Chancellor agreed, too. We have increased employment since 1997 by 2.5 million jobs. In my hon. Friend's own constituency, unemployment has gone down by 42 per cent., youth unemployment by 62 per cent., and long-term unemployment by 84 per cent. since 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1646.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7e5519c1f0c5a015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "countability to local citizens, stronger local leadership, better and more efficient services and a readiness to support tougher intervention when things go wrong. The White Paper sets out how we intend to achieve this re-balancing between central government, local government and local people. At present, there are as many as 1,200 national targets and indicators for a local area. In future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7e5519c1f0c5a015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1661.0", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": " moves to a new inspection regime, away from a rolling programme everywhere to proportionate, targeted, risk-based inspection. It is devolutionary on byelaws, on which the hon. Lady has changed her mind just this morning. It is devolutionary on single- member wards, all-out elections, parish councils and, yes, the standards regime for local councillors. It gives new flexibility over funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1661.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7e5519c1f0c5a015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1691.4", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to be tempted down the road of nominating pilots because there is quite a lot of competition for poorly drafted Acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1691.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7e5519c1f0c5a015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1727.2", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "n how we regard it. When such legislation affects all our constituents—indeed, this legislation will have ramifications that we have not even dreamt of yet—we need to be much more realistic about how we deal with and debate it in this House. I have three suggestions. First, we should have a proper Europe Minister. By that I mean a Minister who is in the Cabinet, who has regular —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "7e5519c1f0c5a015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1758.0", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "record. On trade and the Doha round, it is simply unacceptable that the promise of delivering on a development round should be allowed to die or even to slumber. It would be a matter of shame to me if the EU contributed in any way to such a failure. I hope that the British Government will do everything in their power to persuade the EU, over which we have some influence, to take a bold step—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26a.1758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1638.5", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Si�n Simon", "preceding_text": "ty group on private equity and venture capital. The City of London is the centre of the world when it comes to private equity, with 52 per cent. of the European market. That is principally due to the unprecedentedly supportive environment that this Chancellor and this Labour Government have created and put in place over the past 10 years. In the context of the Financial Services Authority's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1638.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1639.3", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "billion tax cut proposal. After all the publicity that he sought last week, I should have thought that he would at least explain how that would be funded. As for pensions, let me read out the policy that we will not follow: \"In financial services we should allow people to buy and sell products that are not regulated if they have signed to do so\". That is the new Conservative economic policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1639.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1639.4", "colnum": "1639", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. In the past I have allowed the Prime Minister and the Chancellor, and their Opposition shadows, some leeway, but the right hon. Gentleman cannot dwell on Conservative party policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1639.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1640.0", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "No one believes what the Chancellor says about his own policies, let alone ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1641.3", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that all the evidence that comes to my Committee—the Education and Skills Committee—suggests that the massive investment in education and skills over the years of the Labour Government has resulted in a direct improvement not only in millions of people's lives but in the dynamism of our economy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1641.3", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "he years of the Labour Government has resulted in a direct improvement not only in millions of people's lives but in the dynamism of our economy? [ Interruption. ] Yes, in our report that was published yesterday we called for more expenditure, greater investment and a speedy material increase in the amount of money going to individual pupils. Will my right hon. Friend respond to my question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1641.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1642.3", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cuts!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I would have thought that the hon. Gentleman supported what we are doing; in other words, what we are doing is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1642.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The fact of the matter is that nearly 80,000 new nurses are being employed by the national health service. The fact of the matter is also that the NHS budget is rising by between —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1643.2", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have to say to the hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) that he asked the Chancellor a question, so he should let him reply, and not shout at him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1643.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1646.8", "colnum": "1646", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "I do agree, and I wish only that the shadow Chancellor agreed, too. We have increased employment since 1997 by 2.5 million jobs. In my hon. Friend's own constituency, unemployment has gone down by 42 per cent., youth unemployment by 62 per cent., and long-term unemployment by 84 per cent. since 1997.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1646.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1648.2", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman looks at the figures, he will find that his claim is untrue. Since 1997, we have seen not only falling youth unemployment—down by two thirds—but falling inactivity among 16 to 17-year-olds. The fact is that we have more people going into apprenticeships and going to college —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1651.5", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Edward Balls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Balls", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong in his assertions. We have applied our terrorist order in exactly the right way over the past few years in this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1651.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1651.6", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Once again, let the Minister answer. That is the best thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1651.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "countability to local citizens, stronger local leadership, better and more efficient services and a readiness to support tougher intervention when things go wrong. The White Paper sets out how we intend to achieve this re-balancing between central government, local government and local people. At present, there are as many as 1,200 national targets and indicators for a local area. In future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1661.0", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": " moves to a new inspection regime, away from a rolling programme everywhere to proportionate, targeted, risk-based inspection. It is devolutionary on byelaws, on which the hon. Lady has changed her mind just this morning. It is devolutionary on single- member wards, all-out elections, parish councils and, yes, the standards regime for local councillors. It gives new flexibility over funding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1661.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1667.4", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "I am talking about central Government agreeing with local government and its partners what the targets should be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1667.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall be pleased to make a business statement, if I may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1690.2", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Gentleman, I am an Essex man. I spent many happy days in his constituency when I was a younger man. I, too, would like a proper celebration—although we have a celebration—on St. George's day. The hon. Gentleman knows very well that the House is not sitting tomorrow, but it was a nice try—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1690.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1691.4", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to be tempted down the road of nominating pilots because there is quite a lot of competition for poorly drafted Acts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1691.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1705.2", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is not paid to shout.", "preceding_speaker": "Madam Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must inform the House that there has been a failure in the sound system. In the meantime, I wonder whether the hon. and learned Gentleman would raise his voice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1705.3", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": " section 43 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which will in some circumstances dispense with the jury in fraud trials, and to return to the House with a discrete Bill dealing with that. Whether that is in the Queen's Speech in November or in some other Queen's Speech we will await with interest. This is an empty House but despite its brevity the Bill has important aspects that resonate positively.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1727.2", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gisela Stuart", "preceding_text": "n how we regard it. When such legislation affects all our constituents—indeed, this legislation will have ramifications that we have not even dreamt of yet—we need to be much more realistic about how we deal with and debate it in this House. I have three suggestions. First, we should have a proper Europe Minister. By that I mean a Minister who is in the Cabinet, who has regular —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-26", "file": "debates2006-10-26c.xml", "sha256": "3f066ac9833cd379", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1758.0", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "record. On trade and the Doha round, it is simply unacceptable that the promise of delivering on a development round should be allowed to die or even to slumber. It would be a matter of shame to me if the EU contributed in any way to such a failure. I hope that the British Government will do everything in their power to persuade the EU, over which we have some influence, to take a bold step—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-26c.1758.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-30", "file": "debates2006-10-30c.xml", "sha256": "284b4eb57605a1a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-30c.15.4", "colnum": "15", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": " that is indeed why we are moving towards a military managed ward. If necessary—if the numbers justify it—we will move beyond that to military managed wards, to provide an appropriate environment for those who are recovering. However, I will do some research to ascertain whether, when the process of closing the hospitals was embarked on, he was just as vociferous from the Back Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-30c.15.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-30", "file": "debates2006-10-30c.xml", "sha256": "284b4eb57605a1a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-30c.60.2", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "s only if all those matters are considered duly. As to the petty party political points, everyone in the Chamber knows that there has been significant public and other political debate on the subject in the period between the Bill leaving the Chamber and being considered in the other place. It is only right and proper that a responsible and reflective Government should take account of those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-30c.60.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-30", "file": "debates2006-10-30c.xml", "sha256": "284b4eb57605a1a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-30c.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony McNulty", "preceding_text": "with Scottish measures, and provides another method for tackling the problem. None the less, I welcome his welcome, which was stronger than the welcome from his hon. Friend the Memberfor Arundel and South Downs (Nick Herbert). Surprisingly or otherwise, the point that I made about the rank of superintendent rather than chief inspector was right without any assistance from the officials in the Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-30c.64.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-30", "file": "debates2006-10-30c.xml", "sha256": "284b4eb57605a1a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-30c.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Hendry", "preceding_text": "We want something that can be measured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-30c.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-30", "file": "debates2006-10-30c.xml", "sha256": "284b4eb57605a1a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-30c.93.0", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Malcolm Wicks", "preceding_text": "I really do not wish to delay the hon. Gentleman any longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-30c.93.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "db588991085a137c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31a.180.4", "colnum": "180", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "preceding_text": "Those lives have been taken as a result of action by the insurgents. Our troops are there to make sure that action does not take place. Every day, a huge number of people in Iraq lose their lives, and what Opposition Members have done today is encourage that process. What we need to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31a.180.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "db588991085a137c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "t would have to think about coming forward with their own proposals for an inquiry, of the right kind and at the right time. That is the right way for Opposition Members to vote. There are members of various parties who have given strong support to the Government but who are adamantly of the same opinion. In the interests of time, I shall refer only to the former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "db588991085a137c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31a.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way because we have an eight-minute rule. In all conflicts, what happens in them determines how people see the outcome. In Kosovo we had—thank God—an outcome that saved tens of thousands of people from genocide. The illegality of the action taken fades into history. I hope —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31a.190.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I want to raise another technical point with my right hon. Friend. As I understand it, under the existing treaties, the present Commission has to be reduced to 15 after 2009.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Next!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Denis MacShane", "preceding_text": "I want to raise another technical point with my right hon. Friend. As I understand it, under the existing treaties, the present Commission has to be reduced to 15 after 2009. [Interruption.] The lights are going out in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.138.6", "colnum": "138", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "There is no intention to proceed with that at the moment because, as I said, there is no consensus. I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman is drawing on press reports, but he is not entirely correct, as I made those remarks to the media and not to EU Foreign Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.138.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.143.2", "colnum": "143", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that we are creating maximum ill will, as I said to my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) a moment ago. Indeed, I can tell the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) that the Foreign Minister of Romania was clear yesterday that it is his opinion that there is not likely to be much flow of people into this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.143.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.145.1", "colnum": "145", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind remarks. I know that he is well aware that I return his regard and respect, due to the exchanges that we have had in the House over many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.145.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Chris McCafferty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris McCafferty", "preceding_text": " for their daughters and grand-daughters and their right and ability to make similar choices, if necessary, in the future. Abortion has recently been made a matter of debate by those who want a reduction in the upper time limit or even the complete abolition of abortion in this country and abroad. It is a campaign that is fuelled and funded by religious conservatives from Washington to Rome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.157.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.169.4", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": "With the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, he knows my position because we debated that a week ago. We are having a different debate, but my position —[ Interruption. ] I would gladly debate this with the Prime Minister any time. Let us have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.169.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.170.2", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Adam Price", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Price", "preceding_text": " Government that is continuing to affect decisions that are being made now. The Government have made a catalogue of errors that have resulted in problems on the ground. As hon. Members have said, the problem was that we had not government by Cabinet, but government by cabal. The delicate checks and balances of our constitution were swept away. Cabinet was sidelined and Parliament was misled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.174.2", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot understand what I am saying, because it is clear and simple: today is not the time for making these decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.174.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.179.5", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Osborne", "preceding_text": "Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq was in the House last week, he made the point that any decisions on the future of Iraq, including on the deployment of US and British troops, should be made according to the needs of Iraq, and not of the political agendas of either the US or the UK? Does she agree with that, and does she think that the Opposition parties' motion is helpful or unhelpful in that regard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.179.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I will give way, for the final time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.180.6", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Khalid Mahmood", "preceding_text": "I thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for your guidance. What I meant to say was that actions taken here are watched throughout the world and that there are people who will capitalise on these actions and further put at risk the lives of our service people in action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.181.2", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": " I have explained, I believe that that is also unwise. Whatever anyone's view of the decisions that were made in 2003 and subsequently, it would be the wrong decision today to divert the time and energy of all those working hard to secure a better future for Iraq. I have to say that I deplore the apparent complete disinterest in the future of Iraq that some Opposition Members have displayed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.181.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "t would have to think about coming forward with their own proposals for an inquiry, of the right kind and at the right time. That is the right way for Opposition Members to vote. There are members of various parties who have given strong support to the Government but who are adamantly of the same opinion. In the interests of time, I shall refer only to the former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "What a tangled web we weave—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.190.1", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "David Blunkett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Blunkett", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way because we have an eight-minute rule. In all conflicts, what happens in them determines how people see the outcome. In Kosovo we had—thank God—an outcome that saved tens of thousands of people from genocide. The illegality of the action taken fades into history. I hope —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.190.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.214.3", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "d Wales oppose our membership of NATO and, as a consequence, call into question our actions in Afghanistan. What they want is a show trial for narrow political ends. It is not about establishing new facts or new evidence. All the relevant material was examined in detail by the Butler and Hutton inquiries, by the Intelligence and Security Committee and by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.214.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.215.6", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Adam Ingram", "preceding_text": "I recognise my hon. Friend's honourable position on that issue. The nationalists give no support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.215.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.235.6", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "Maidenhead and a new station at Reading, which is desperately needed to create a better through-way for east-west and north-south rail routes. Is the Secretary of State saying to the House tonight that his Department is giving no consideration whatever to bringing those two projects together? Again, I will happily give way if he wants to tell the House that some joined-up thinking has taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.235.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-10-31", "file": "debates2006-10-31c.xml", "sha256": "102fa75257683cd0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.249.4", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike Gapes", "preceding_text": "eone used the phrase \"no-brainer\". That applies to the benefits of Crossrail for my constituents and for others, and to the future of London as a global city. My constituency will also have extended platform lengths at three stations. We will have the freight loop. We will have a lot of engineering work. We will now have a cleaning facility, as a result of the decision to get rid of Romford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-10-31c.249.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9a6449c93ec0bcef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01a.327.5", "colnum": "327", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "e. We could change the order of the terms of our sittings. The hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Joan Ruddock) , who is no longer in her seat, raised a wider issue. In my view, the party conference season is in desperate need of a shake-up. I would far prefer party conferences to take place over weekends, rather than during the week. In terms of enabling more people to have access to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01a.327.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9a6449c93ec0bcef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01a.327.5", "colnum": "327", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ell him that on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday—not the Sunday—of party conference, I chaired a session where members of our candidates list put policy proposals to the conference and conference voted on those proposals, which are going forward to our policy review. So we did indeed have votes, and what is more, they were votes on policy. We need to change the party conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01a.327.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "9a6449c93ec0bcef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "s been an excellent day's debate. It has covered the ground comprehensively, and it is striking that one of the consistent themes expressed on both sides of the House is that Members are anxious better to serve their constituents. I want to make two points, not least to the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Bone) and others. I do not think that he was in his place when I opened my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01a.399.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.285.6", "colnum": "285", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "owledge that the Chinese were not happy with the announcement that was made, of which they had very little notice. The hon. Gentleman must accept, however, that China played a major part in doing what the whole international community wanted—namely, bringing pressure to bear to get North Korea to the table so that the six-party talks could continue. The whole House should welcome that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.285.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.287.9", "colnum": "287", "heading": "CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER", "cue_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Hilary Armstrong", "preceding_text": "lus and the national health service, have been acknowledged internationally as the best way of helping people on incapacity benefit to get back into work quickly. The programme has been the most successful to date in getting people with mental health problems back into work. I hope that my hon. Friend and other colleagues will work locally to ensure that more of that happens in their areas —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.287.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.289.3", "colnum": "289", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Today hundreds of health workers will be lobbying Parliament worried about deficits, cuts and low morale in our health service. The Government's chief medical officer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.289.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.290.4", "colnum": "290", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "the very targets that he wants to scrap are resulting in reduced waiting times and reduced waiting lists. Yes, it is true that there are real difficulties in the NHS—of course there are. There are bound to be when we undergo a process of change. The right hon. Gentleman says that staff are protesting about our policy, not his, but that is hardly surprising when we look at what his policy is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.290.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ed the right hon. Gentleman to get away with that before. I will not labour the point—the Prime Minister is here to talk about the business of the Government. [Interruption.] Order. I am giving a ruling on an important point. Questions should be about the business of the Government. The issue of who will be the next leader of the Labour party is for the Labour party to talk about and decide.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.291.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "mmittee on Modernisation of the House of Commons in October 2002, the House agreed that, of the hour or so allotted to statements, the opening ministerial statement should last no longer than 10 minutes and that the reply from the official Opposition should be confined to five minutes. My view is that it is appropriate for the Liberal Democrats, or any other party, to be confined to three minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Weading?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. May I say to the hon. Member for East Dunbartonshire that if she is concerned about probity, so is the whole House, and one of the best ways of ensuring probity is by having ceilings on all allowances? We do not have that now, but the package that I am outlining offers a sensible way forward. My hon. Friend the Member for Weading, West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " the longest-running constituency case—it has been going on for seven years—that I have ever had to deal with. It involves the planning authority, and although I generally have the highest regard for colleagues in the local authority, on this particular matter, there has been a level of maladministration. It has been my duty to represent a particular family and a wider community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.327.5", "colnum": "327", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "s simple. We could change the order of the terms of our sittings. The hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Joan Ruddock) , who is no longer in her seat, raised a wider issue. In my view, the party conference season is in desperate need of a shake-up. I would far prefer party conferences to take place over weekends, than during the week. In terms of enabling more people to have access to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.327.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.327.5", "colnum": "327", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Theresa May", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Theresa May", "preceding_text": "ll him that on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday—not the Sunday—of party conference, I chaired a session where members of our candidates' list put policy proposals to the conference and conference voted on those proposals, which are going forward to our policy review. So we did indeed have votes, and what is more, they were votes on policy. We need to change the party conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.327.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "David Heath", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Heath", "preceding_text": " it the better. I agree with the right hon. Member for Wells (Mr. Heathcoat-Amory) that the meetings of the European Scrutiny Committee should be open; I have not the slightest idea why they are not. That upsets me. It also upsets me that sessions of the European Council of Ministers are closed, not open and transparent, but that is not within our remit. The proposal on short speeches is sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.338.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "s been an excellent day's debate. It has covered the ground comprehensively, and it is striking that one of the consistent themes expressed on both sides of the House is that Members are anxious better to serve their constituents. I want to make two points, not least to the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Bone) and others. I do not think that he was in his place when I opened my remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-01", "file": "debates2006-11-01b.xml", "sha256": "9bcd5d4f0f509c08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "DEFERRED DIVISIONS", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I shall ask my office and the Clerk's Department to keep me informed and shall discuss the matter with Mr. Speaker. The hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon raised the final matter to which I want to refer: the length of Ministers' speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-01b.403.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-02", "file": "debates2006-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "3fb0ef42bc97d0cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman has taken that attitude, because most Members realise that in this complex area—this is the first legislation to have to engage with devolutionary issues—it is important that we get things right. The consultation has received serious responses from a range of organisations. I do not know whether the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-02", "file": "debates2006-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "3fb0ef42bc97d0cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.449.7", "colnum": "449", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ian Pearson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right to raise that issue. The Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for Brent, North (Barry Gardiner) , who is responsible for biodiversity, is aware of the issue and has been in discussions with colleagues about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.449.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-02", "file": "debates2006-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "3fb0ef42bc97d0cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "ek was handled as chaotic. It was handled extremely well. The hon. Gentleman is wrong about the state veterinary service. I am pleased to be able to put on record here and now in the House that the state veterinary service is one of the few bits of the DEFRA family that is not affected by the current savings. I know that because I am the Minister responsible, and I protected it specifically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-02", "file": "debates2006-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "3fb0ef42bc97d0cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ces and drug rehabilitation. It strikes me that every week the right hon. Lady reads out a list of Government activities where our offence is that we should be spending even more money than we are spending, rather than less. She will cost the shadow Chancellor, the hon. Member for Tatton (Mr. Osborne) , a huge amount, not least in terms of his credibility, when he tries to go to the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-02", "file": "debates2006-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "3fb0ef42bc97d0cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.462.0", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "of very high levels of spending compared with 1997, are having to ensure that they live within their means. In respect of social services, I can say, having been a Member of this House for as long as I have, that every year, as surely as night follows day, various local government departments claim that it will be the end of the world if they do not get more money. But we should look at the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.462.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-02", "file": "debates2006-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "3fb0ef42bc97d0cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "has made better points about the issue of generic debates than he has today. In fact, it was not really a very good try, because he knows very well—it has been announced for long enough—that at the end of a parliamentary Session, business is inevitably dominated by ping-pong with the Lords. If he wishes to enter into a proper pact with us and agree that we can have the business —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.464.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-02", "file": "debates2006-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "3fb0ef42bc97d0cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.467.5", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I have never suggested that the foreign policy debates in the Queen's Speech, or the opportunity for hon. Members to speak on foreign policy matters—including Iraq—at any stage in that five-day debate, are sufficient —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.467.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-02", "file": "debates2006-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "3fb0ef42bc97d0cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.471.5", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Indeed. I have it before me on the Dispatch Box for greater accuracy. As you will recall, Mr. Speaker, formally you call the Commons back following representations by Her Majesty's Ministers.I have been involved in all three cases over the last10 years when Parliament was recalled; in each case the Government were not unwilling to recall Parliament and in 1998, when I was Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.471.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-02", "file": "debates2006-11-02b.xml", "sha256": "3fb0ef42bc97d0cb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.473.4", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for adding balance to his question. We all understand concern when there are reductions in previously set budgets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-02b.473.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "30d644f477958e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06a.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (WALES) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "tion greyhounds. I hope that the Minister will confirm that their welfare is a priority for his codes and that the matter will be dealt with sooner rather than later, particularly given, as the hon. Member for Leominster said, some of the terrible stories that appeared in the national press over the summer. I do not know whether I should declare an interest, but my brother breeds greyhounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "30d644f477958e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (WALES) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I take it that the hon. Gentleman objects to the mandatory revision of sentences, release at given points, mandatory reductions in sentences for pleading guilty and so on. I congratulate him on being several months behind me in saying so publicly, and we are this week issuing a consultation on sentencing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06a.630.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "30d644f477958e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06a.646.4", "colnum": "646", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (WALES) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "plain it in simple terms. The UN-ECE agreement goes back to 20 March 1958 , and regulation 104—I am trying to keep this brief—sets the technical standards. The regulation originated with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, on which sit 57 countries. I am watching the Minister carefully to see whether he is still with me. The regulation was made under the aegis of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06a.646.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "30d644f477958e7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06a.646.4", "colnum": "646", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (WALES) BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "upplement 7 to the 02 series to regulation 48, which actually introduces retro-reflective markings as a specific device for installation on certain categories of vehicles. I am glad to see that the Minister is still nodding slightly. The installation of such markings is, however, optional—that is, at the manufacturer's discretion—and the form of the markings is not specified in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06a.646.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.564.4", "colnum": "564", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "I had hoped that the hon. Gentleman would come to the Dispatch Box to congratulate schools throughout the country on exceeding the target for getting young people to do two hours a week of high-quality sport and PE, and that he would congratulate the local authorities and community clubs that have made such heroic efforts to improve their facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.564.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.565.2", "colnum": "565", "heading": "CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "legislated for or given effect, could not be anticipated. A cross-Government group signed off London's plans and agreed that it was the right approach not to anticipate at that point the VAT status. The issue was not raised by PricewaterhouseCooper, who advised us on the costs, nor were issues in relation to VAT at that point identified by the Treasury or by departmental accounting officers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.565.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.606.0", "colnum": "606", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Norman Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Norman Baker", "preceding_text": "tion greyhounds. I hope that the Minister will confirm that their welfare is a priority for his codes and that the matter will be dealt with sooner rather than later, particularly given, as the hon. Member for Leominster said, some of the terrible stories that appeared in the national press over the summer. I do not know whether I should declare an interest, but my brother breeds greyhounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "I rise simply to support the determination of the Government to consult, as reflected in Lords amendment No. 12. I have two comments that I hope may reinforce the Government's commitment to consult effectively. First, I entirely agree with what my hon. Friend the Member for Leominster (Bill Wiggin) said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.613.0", "colnum": "613", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "ms at such sales which require them to be banned, and that is consistent with all our veterinary advice. Also, a ban would have a disproportionate effect on those businesses. I accept entirely what the right hon. Member for Maidstone and The Weald said about the cat code. It is not the Government's intention to punish the owners of fat cats, although overfeeding an animal can be problematic—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.613.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.617.4", "colnum": "617", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": " have been given the wrong advice. As this is a devolved issue, I hope that the hon. Member for Leominster (Bill Wiggin) will forgive me for not being up to speed with the devolved Administrations on the matter. However, I take his point. Consistency within the devolutionary settlement would seem to make sense. We will try hard to ensure that the various codes and regulations are consistent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.617.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "not accept the Opposition amendments, for reasons that I shall state as succinctly as possible. First, they are outside the scope of the treaty, and would require us to renegotiate it. Secondly, in strictly legal terms, were the amendments to succeed, we would have to renegotiate some 20 other bilateral treaties. I heard a shout from the Conservative Front Bench of \"Good thing\" to the first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I take it that the hon. Gentleman objects to the mandatory revision of sentences, release at given points, mandatory reductions in sentences for pleading guilty and so on. I congratulate him on being several months behind me in saying so publicly, and we are this week issuing a consultation on sentencing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. The Home Secretary spoke for 25 minutes in a 45-minute debate and other Members want to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "ANIMAL WELFARE BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 3)", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"One minute.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "Given the time, I shall be very brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.646.4", "colnum": "646", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "xplain it in simple terms. The UNECE agreement goes back to 20 March 1958 , and regulation 104—I am trying to keep this brief—sets the technical standards. The regulation originated with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, on which sit 57 countries. I am watching the Minister carefully to see whether he is still with me. The regulation was made under the aegis of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.646.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-06", "file": "debates2006-11-06b.xml", "sha256": "975c17aac85b01fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.646.4", "colnum": "646", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "upplement 7 to the 02 series to regulation 48, which actually introduces retro-reflective markings as a specific device for installation on certain categories of vehicles. I am glad to see that the Minister is still nodding slightly. The installation of such markings is, however, optional—that is, at the manufacturer's discretion—and the form of the markings is not specified in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-06b.646.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-07", "file": "debates2006-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "a937af5f20b0c60e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ent. of all those charged with a capital offence. Given that this measure is the brainchild of the Secretary of State, many hon. Members will be surprised that he has decided not to present the arguments for bringing it before the House, but has left it to his hon. Friend the Under-Secretary, a brand new Minister. Perhaps the Secretary of State would like to explain why he has chosen not to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-07", "file": "debates2006-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "d29453ba593bafa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "ing out private investment. Indeed, growth in public sector investment, along with macro-economic stability over recent years, has been one of the critical success factors, bringing low interest rates, high levels of employment and steady growth. I believe that it is the rank prejudice of Conservative Members towards doctors, teachers, nurses, home helps and other vital public services that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-07", "file": "debates2006-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "d29453ba593bafa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.710.4", "colnum": "710", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Asks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady answers a very important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.710.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-07", "file": "debates2006-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "d29453ba593bafa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.728.0", "colnum": "728", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "The discussions that I have with the Chancellor should probably remain as collegial and internal discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-07", "file": "debates2006-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "d29453ba593bafa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Owen Paterson", "preceding_text": "k two weeks to inspect one of his farms, the process not being accelerated by the inspector's going to sleep one day in the corner of one of his fields. What measures is the Secretary of State taking to ensure that there is competent co-ordination between the Welsh authorities and the English authorities so that constituents such as mine with holdings on both sides of the border are not penalised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-07", "file": "debates2006-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "d29453ba593bafa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.755.2", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Patrick McFadden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patrick McFadden", "preceding_text": " from the 2001 Act and it has remained for a further five years without any of the constitutional consequences that were mentioned taking place. The UK Government did not say to the Scottish Executive that the Scotland Act 1998 would be exempt—and let me also say that Government Members care deeply about the devolution settlement. We legislated to bring about the devolution settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.755.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-07", "file": "debates2006-11-07b.xml", "sha256": "d29453ba593bafa3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "ARMED FORCES BILL (PROGRAMME) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "ent. of all those charged with a capital offence. Given that this measure is the brainchild of the Secretary of State, many hon. Members will be surprised that he has decided not to present the arguments for bringing it before the House, but has left it to his hon. Friend the Under-Secretary, a brand new Minister. Perhaps the Secretary of State would like to explain why he has chosen not to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-07b.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "a politician's criticism of the judiciary; that is appeal judges saying that those sentences were not acceptable. In other cases, I want the courts to make more use of the community sentences that the Government have provided. In one project, I saw young women having drug treatment and bringing their babies with them, breaking the cycle of despair and drugs and prostitution. Common sense is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "d the legacy was that we now have a tights machine in the House of Commons. I have done my research. The hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch, East is a staunch Blairite and I gather that her favourite album is \"Saturday Night Fever\". When the Chancellor takes over, for staunch Blairites like her \"Staying Alive\" will not just be a song on their iPod; it will be a daily challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "more clear than in the two vital areas of health and crime. Nine years ago, the Prime Minister claimed that there were 24 hours to save the NHS, yet today, 20,000 jobs are being cut in the health service. The Government never had a clue how to reform the health service. They scrapped GP fundholding; now, they are bringing it back. They abolished the internal market; now, they are bringing it back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will not be around to see this Queen's Speech through. There is going to be a new power in the land. We have been lucky to have a unique insight—I think that the Home Secretary will enjoy this—from one of Britain's leading character actors, Keith Allen, about what to expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "lor should not be upset. He got booed at the music awards last night, but what is worse than that is that people were chanting, \"Bring back Tony!\" We should not expect anything different from the Chancellor. If the problem with the Government is short-term gimmicks, politically motivated laws and failed centralisation, the Chancellor is not the solution—he is the biggest part of the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " built on talking about sunshine, any more than antisocial behaviour is combated by \"love\". Hope is what a strong economy gives us; hope is what investment in the NHS and schools gives us. Hope means proper measures to tackle the long-term challenges. Hope, true hope, is about tough decision making, and the right hon. Gentleman has never taken a tough decision in his life. Now for my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.23.6", "colnum": "23", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "h the various positions that the right hon. Member for Witney has adopted on nuclear power. His industry spokesman said that from about \"the age of 12\", he had an \"instinctive hostility\" to \"nuclear power\". His shadow Chancellor said that he would be \"happy to see nuclear power\". The right hon. Gentleman himself said: \"I'm neither dogmatically in favour of nuclear power, nor dogmatically against\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.23.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.23.6", "colnum": "23", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " see nuclear power\". The right hon. Gentleman himself said: \"I'm neither dogmatically in favour of nuclear power, nor dogmatically against\". [Interruption.] What is my position? I am in favour of it. Is the right hon. Gentleman in favour of it? The right hon. Member for Witney asks me what my position is and I have said that I am in favour of it. What, then, is the right hon. Gentleman's position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.23.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The decommissioning costs have to be met in any event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You haven't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "change. The right hon. Gentleman said in his speech—indeed, this is commonly said by those on the Opposition Front Bench—that laws are not the answer. Laws are not the whole answer, but I am afraid that they are part of the answer. The fact is that without antisocial behaviour legislation, we would never have been able to tackle the blight of antisocial behaviour in our constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.28.7", "colnum": "28", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ore on drug rehabilitation, more on police, more on the intelligence services, more on charities, more nurses and health visitors, more for child care for parents, more for child care for grandparents, and more on post offices—billions more. Then comes the Tory tax commission that proposes £21 billion-worth of tax cuts. How does he make everything add up? He has his fiscal rule —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.28.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to answer that point, which was touched on last week by the right hon. and learned Member for Kensington and Chelsea (Sir Malcolm Rifkind) , who criticised the Prime Minister for not participating in the assessment in the United States. He made a perfectly valid and pertinent point with which I agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "hortages, concerns about standards in education, the stealth taxes that the Government have imposed on my constituents, and many transport issues are not addressed in the Queen's Speech. I welcome some measures in the speech, however, particularly the proposal to restore the link between pensions and earnings. In the last general election, many of us campaigned on introducing such a measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "seems a crazy policy is that 47,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide are produced by each shipment that goes across the planet and back again to be re-exported. I have this question for the Government. In their enthusiasm for globalisation, it should be accepted that some aspects of globalisation will conflict with carbon emissions targets aimed at saving the planet. And in a market that is created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.76.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15d.xml", "sha256": "e79e2c0f6c62dca8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "e are having to wait for their operations. What world does the Prime Minister live in, because he does not live in the same world as most of us? There are five or so Home Office Bills in the Queen's Speech. I am not quite sure about this so I hope that the House will forgive me for asking the question: have there been 50 or 57 Home Office Bills since 1997? I have been told that there have been 57.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15d.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.1.1", "colnum": "1", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Tell the Whips!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "As the House will recall, it was agreed that the Speaker should make a brief statement at the beginning of each Session about the duties and responsibilities of Members. Our privileges allow us to conduct our debate without fear of outside interference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.1.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Alun Michael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alun Michael", "preceding_text": "t a politician's criticism of the judiciary; that is appeal judges saying that the sentences were not acceptable. In other cases, I want the courts to make more use of the community sentences that the Government have provided. In one project, I saw young women having drug treatment and bringing their babies with them, breaking the cycle of despair and drugs and prostitution. Common sense is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "d the legacy was that we now have a tights machine in the House of Commons. I have done my research. The hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch, East is a staunch Blairite and I gather that her favourite album is \"Saturday Night Fever\". When the Chancellor takes over, for staunch Blairites like her \"Staying Alive\" will not just be a song on their iPod; it will be a daily challenge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.13.0", "colnum": "13", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "more clear than in the two vital areas of health and crime. Nine years ago, the Prime Minister claimed that there were 24 hours to save the NHS, yet today, 20,000 jobs are being cut in the health service. The Government never had a clue how to reform the health service. They scrapped GP fundholding; now, they are bringing it back. They abolished the internal market; now, they are bringing it back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.13.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "ncellor started out wanting to save the NHS and tackle the causes of crime, but they ended up closing hospitals and closing their minds on crime. They started with hope, now there is just fear; they started with ambition, now there is just a poverty of vision. The Prime Minister is going to introduce the Queen's Speech, but he will not be around to see it through. There is going to be a new—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister will not be around to see this Queen's Speech through. There is going to be a new power in the land. We have been lucky to have a unique insight—I think that the Home Secretary will enjoy this—from one of Britain's leading character actors, Keith Allen, about what to expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "lor should not be upset. He got booed at the music awards last night, but what is worse than that is that people were chanting, \"Bring back Tony!\" We should not expect anything different from the Chancellor. If the problem with the Government is short-term gimmicks, politically motivated laws and failed centralisation, the Chancellor is not the solution—he is the biggest part of the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " built on talking about sunshine, any more than antisocial behaviour is combated by \"love\". Hope is what a strong economy gives us; hope is what investment in the NHS and schools gives us. Hope means proper measures to tackle the long-term challenges. Hope, true hope, is about tough decision making, and the right hon. Gentleman has never taken a tough decision in his life. Now for my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "re we allow those people—the same elements that are fuelling extremism right around the region—to have victory, through terrorism, in Iraq or Afghanistan it is not just a tragedy for those two countries but a tragedy for the security of the world, including this country. September 11 came out of Afghanistan, exactly the same elements that are in Iraq today fuelling the terrorism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.23.6", "colnum": "23", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "h the various positions that the right hon. Member for Witney has adopted on nuclear power. His industry spokesman said that from about \"the age of 12\", he had an \"instinctive hostility\" to \"nuclear power\". His shadow Chancellor said that he would be \"happy to see nuclear power\". The right hon. Gentleman himself said: \"I'm neither dogmatically in favour of nuclear power, nor dogmatically against\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.23.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.23.6", "colnum": "23", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " see nuclear power\". The right hon. Gentleman himself said: \"I'm neither dogmatically in favour of nuclear power, nor dogmatically against\". [Interruption.] What is my position? I am in favour of it. Is the right hon. Gentleman in favour of it? The right hon. Member for Witney asks me what my position is and I have said that I am in favour of it. What, then, is the right hon. Gentleman's position?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.23.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The decommissioning costs have to be met in any event.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You haven't.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "change. The right hon. Gentleman said in his speech—indeed, this is commonly said by those on the Opposition Front Bench—that laws are not the answer. Laws are not the whole answer, but I am afraid that they are part of the answer. The fact is that without antisocial behaviour legislation, we would never have been able to tackle the blight of antisocial behaviour in our constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.27.1", "colnum": "27", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "The rules on proscription, of course, are one of the changes that we made. There is a process that has to be gone through and that process is being gone through. In relation to the particular newspaper story, my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary tells me that he is looking at the circumstances and the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.27.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have been giving way quite a lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "This —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "This —[ Interruption. ] I think that that is a very poor point for the reason that I will give. The hon. Gentleman says that the only justification that we put forward for the 90 days was soundbites and rhetoric, but the justification was a written submission —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.27.5", "colnum": "27", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ce force. With the greatest respect to the hon. Gentleman, that is not a politician's soundbite. It is evidence from the person who is actually charged with dealing with terrorism in this country. I had hoped that in the intervening period the Conservative party had slightly come to its senses about this, but his intervention does not give me a great deal of hope. The fact of the matter is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.27.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I have been very generous. I am sure that there are other hon. Members who want to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.28.7", "colnum": "28", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ore on drug rehabilitation, more on police, more on the intelligence services, more on charities, more nurses and health visitors, more for child care for parents, more for child care for grandparents, and more on post offices—billions more. Then comes the Tory tax commission that proposes £21 billion-worth of tax cuts. How does he make everything add up? He has his fiscal rule —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.28.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Are you paying the money back?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "I gave way to the right hon. Gentleman because, from time to time, we get flashes of that intellectual ability for which he has a justifiable reputation. If I may say so, however, he has a remarkable capacity for not taking the opportunities offered to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "I gave way to the right hon. Gentleman because, from time to time, we get flashes of that intellectual ability for which he has a justifiable reputation. If I may say so, however, he has a remarkable capacity for not taking the opportunities offered to him. [Hon. Members: \"Are you paying the money back?\"] We will open our books for public scrutiny if the Conservatives do the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.37.9", "colnum": "37", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about this war.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "As they would say in a court of law, the hon. Gentleman wishes me to answer several questions at the same time. I have been to Kuwait and my daughter was a Reuters correspondent, who followed the war from Kuwait to Baghdad and spent a year in Baghdad as a newspaper reporter. I know from her first-hand information how our troops felt in that battle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.37.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving me the opportunity to answer that point, which was touched on last week by the right hon. and learned Member for Kensington and Chelsea (Sir Malcolm Rifkind) , who criticised the Prime Minister for not participating in the assessment in the United States. He made a perfectly valid and pertinent point with which I agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.38.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "hortages, concerns about standards in education, the stealth taxes that the Government have imposed on my constituents, and many transport issues are not addressed in the Queen's Speech. I welcome some measures in the speech, however, particularly the proposal to restore the link between pensions and earnings. In the last general election, many of us campaigned on introducing such a measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "seems a crazy policy is that 47,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide are produced by each shipment that goes across the planet and back again to be re-exported. I have this question for the Government. In their enthusiasm for globalisation, it should be accepted that some aspects of globalisation will conflict with carbon emissions targets aimed at saving the planet. And in a market that is created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.76.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.85.3", "colnum": "85", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevan Jones", "preceding_text": "ultation will be important in ensuring that local communities have their say. The Bill will also help to ensure that buses meet a certain standard. Low-floor buses tend to be concentrated in urban areas. I look forward to that Bill and to ensuring that my constituents have access to a service that is not a privilege, but vital to many rural communities. Turning to the local government Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.85.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-15", "file": "debates2006-11-15e.xml", "sha256": "968bf596791c9a21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Robathan", "preceding_text": "e are having to wait for their operations. What world does the Prime Minister live in, because he does not live in the same world as most of us? There are five or so Home Office Bills in the Queen's Speech. I am not quite sure about this so I hope that the House will forgive me for asking the question: have there been 50 or 57 Home Office Bills since 1997? I have been told that there have been 57.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-15e.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "fdc2e7459e115857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not think that any post offices have been open at 10 pm, which is when I bought my eggs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "fdc2e7459e115857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, keep going\".", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "No, I should finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "fdc2e7459e115857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "preceding_text": "accountable Whitehall elite. How much longer should a tiny elite have a monopoly in setting our country's legislative agenda? I would like to see a Queen's Speech drafted not by the heads of various quangos, civil servants or technocrats, but with the direct input of the people. I believe that we need a right of popular initiative so that everyone in Britain can have a voice in the Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "fdc2e7459e115857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "nto training. It will be very interesting to hear from him exactly what he meant by that. Within 48 hours of his making that statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer made it clear that in his view nobody is suggesting that children who do not want to do so should stay on at school full-time until 18. So exactly what kite was the Secretary of State flying? Will he explain what his commitment was?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "fdc2e7459e115857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "dash;it is due to be published around the time of the autumn statement—which is supposed to set out the Government's skills and training agenda. The Department for Education and Skills has announced a Bill, which is presumably in the process of being drafted, before we have had the Treasury's proposals, which will be introduced next month. That seems an extremely odd way to run a Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "fdc2e7459e115857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": "This has not been the best attended debate but it has been one of the most fascinating that I have attended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16b.xml", "sha256": "fdc2e7459e115857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " pushing through the Higher Education Bill in the face of stern and fierce opposition from the Opposition, the position of the Liberal Democrats, which I understood, was that we needed the funding but we should get it through an increase in tax, but the position of the Conservative party was that we needed plumbers, not graduates. It was that we needed to shrink the levels of participation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16b.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "running out of ideas, ignoring the scale of the problems of antisocial behaviour afflicting our communities. I hope that the right hon. Lady is not saying that in the nearly Labour-free area of Maidenhead it is the Labour party that is to blame for the antisocial behaviour of young people, from reasonable homes, who are out of control. She must look to those parents and to her own local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "every other area, the powers available to the police and local communities better to control antisocial behaviour have been dramatically improved, and that is why, in my area as across the country, the incidence of antisocial behaviour has greatly reduced. The right hon. Lady asked me about my right hon. Friend the Minister for Europe. He has performed a brilliant job as Minister for Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.131.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that it is a sell-out—it is certainly not a sell-out, and that is not the view, I believe, of the Chief Minister in Gibraltar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.133.3", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "What did I get it for? For being a good friend of India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too much legislation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "It is all very amusing to discover that legislation made between 1235 and 1947 fits into less shelf space than that made in the past 10 years. Is the hon. Gentleman seriously arguing that we should go back to the conditions for people in 1947, let alone 1235? He needs to explain what his point is. Much of the legislation that has been passed since 1947—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I will not get the Prime Minister here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I do not think that any post offices have been open at 10 pm, which is when I bought my eggs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Let me make a little more progress. We have been discussing waiting lists. We have cut the waiting time for elective operations, hip replacements and so on from more than 18 months under the Conservatives to a maximum of six months and, for most people, far less. By the end of 2008, we will have cut waiting times from 18 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.148.4", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "Before I give way again, I should like to make a little more progress. We have been discussing the issue of faster treatment, which is vital, but is only one element in a better national health service. For far too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": " We have been talking about up to 20,000 jobs being lost in the hospital sector alone this year, not across the whole of the NHS. The hon. Gentleman cites Nottingham. Well, I visited the Queen's Medical Centre in late May, just after the announcements were made, and the figure that I gave is precisely the one that I was told about: 1,200 potential job losses. At the time, at the end of May —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "had. Of course the NHS must remain true to its founding principles, but it also needs investment with reform. The Government talked about that, but they never achieved it. The Conservative Government of the early 1990s introduced reform and, for a while, we had investment with reform. However, I admit that the investment was not sufficiently sustained through the 1990s to maintain progress —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "esult of Government targets. I have already mentioned waiting times. I have another statistic, derived from the answer to a question to the Department of Health in July about average waiting times: in 1997, according to hospital episode statistics, the average waiting time was 11.8 weeks, but in 2005 it was 12 weeks. That does not say much for the improvements under the Government. In Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "Ministers. We need the independent structure of patient and public engagement that I mentioned, and an independent health care regulator, based on Monitor and the Healthcare Commission, which will be responsible for tariff setting and the fair allocation of resources. I heard the nonsense from the Secretary of State about the impact of a more equitable system for the allocation of resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "onsible for tariff setting and the fair allocation of resources. I heard the nonsense from the Secretary of State about the impact of a more equitable system for the allocation of resources— [ Interruption. ] It is nonsense, because all she has done is to calculate figures on the basis of premature mortality, not on the basis of morbidity data, which might give very different outcomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, keep going\".", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "No, I should finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Tredinnick", "preceding_text": "und;1,500 per patient. We are talking about phenomenal reductions in costs. If only the Government were able to see a way of linking in those therapists, or boosting the hospitals that we already have—perhaps I should not be saying this. Perhaps we should save this information for the incoming Conservative Government. Why am I tipping this Government off when they will be out of office soon?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.205.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Carswell", "preceding_text": "accountable Whitehall elite. How much longer should a tiny elite have a monopoly in setting our country's legislative agenda? I would like to see a Queen's Speech drafted not by the heads of various quangos, civil servants or technocrats, but with the direct input of the people. I believe that we need a right of popular initiative so that everyone in Britain can have a voice in the Queen's Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "or Bosworth (David Tredinnick) that the Queen's Speech was overloaded. There is a lot in it. I wonder why the Prime Minister felt it necessary to pack the Queen's Speech so full of legislation when he will stand down at some stage next year and it will be for someone else to consider what sort of programme there should be. We do not know how much of the Queen's Speech will be taken forward —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Evans", "preceding_text": "That is correct. They are dedicated people who want to work in the health service—they want to give care to people. People who are in need of physiotherapy live in constant pain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "nto training. It will be very interesting to hear from him exactly what he meant by that. Within 48 hours of his making that statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer made it clear that in his view nobody is suggesting that children who do not want to do so should stay on at school full-time until 18. So exactly what kite was the Secretary of State flying? Will he explain what his commitment was?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Willetts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Willetts", "preceding_text": "dash;it is due to be published around the time of the autumn statement—which is supposed to set out the Government's skills and training agenda. The Department for Education and Skills has announced a Bill, which is presumably in the process of being drafted, before we have had the Treasury's proposals, which will be introduced next month. That seems an extremely odd way to run a Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.242.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alan Johnson", "preceding_text": " pushing through the Higher Education Bill in the face of stern and fierce opposition from the Opposition, the position of the Liberal Democrats, which I understood, was that we needed the funding but we should get it through an increase in tax, but the position of the Conservative party was that we needed plumbers, not graduates. It was that we needed to shrink the levels of participation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-16", "file": "debates2006-11-16c.xml", "sha256": "e024e7fe4842f65c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "SEXUAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (YORKSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "an is championing the importance of sexual and mental health services, I applaud that; more hon. Members should do so. They are Cinderella services that do not get enough attention or profile. If the hon. Gentleman is willing to engage in a debate about how to improve sexual and mental health services, he will find me a willing partner. But please do not come to the House and make dishonest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-16c.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-20", "file": "debates2006-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fec933627d7911fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20b.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": " of at least a 60 per cent. reduction by 2050, framework targets to help us on our way and annual targets set on a rolling basis. I know that the Secretary of State has reservations about those proposals and that, if there is a spike in the oil price or the weather changes, it could throw out the targets in any given year. However, that is exactly why we have proposed flexible arrangements —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20b.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-20", "file": "debates2006-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fec933627d7911fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20b.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "n the new Bill, re-presented last week, on 14 November , part 3 is now about the responsibility of the commission to set targets. In addition to the four different Conservative positions cited by the Prime Minister last week, I can also advise the House on the contents of the Conservative research department's briefing on the Queen's Speech. On the subject of binding annual targets, it says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20b.378.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-20", "file": "debates2006-11-20b.xml", "sha256": "fec933627d7911fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20b.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I can tell him very clearly that carbon emissions have risen by 1.5 per cent. and that greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 7 per cent. while the economy has grown by 25 per cent. For the first time in our industrial history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20b.379.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-20", "file": "debates2006-11-20c.xml", "sha256": "b935ef4cf6206ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Soulsby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Soulsby", "preceding_text": "cal government in the public eye and unlikely by themselves to restore the morale of demoralised elected members and officers in many parts of local government. Measures in the White Paper and Queen's Speech are also unlikely to deal with the fundamental issue of local government finance. We shall have to wait for the Lyons review for that essential measure, and only when we get that review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-20", "file": "debates2006-11-20c.xml", "sha256": "b935ef4cf6206ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": " of at least a 60 per cent. reduction by 2050, framework targets to help us on our way and annual targets set on a rolling basis. I know that the Secretary of State has reservations about those proposals and that, if there is a spike in the oil price or the weather changes, it could throw out the targets in any given year. However, that is exactly why we have proposed flexible arrangements —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-20", "file": "debates2006-11-20c.xml", "sha256": "b935ef4cf6206ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Ainsworth", "preceding_text": "That is a silly question and I am sorry that I gave way. The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that we have policy reviews going on and he will —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-20", "file": "debates2006-11-20c.xml", "sha256": "b935ef4cf6206ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "ill make a written statement on this tomorrow—may I set out a few of the conclusions of the climate change talks last week? We went to Nairobi with three clear tests for the talks, the first of which was on adaptation, especially in Africa. Last Monday, I flew to Turkana in northern Kenya, near the Ugandan border. I met pastoralist farmers, herdsmen and women, who told me about walks —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-20", "file": "debates2006-11-20c.xml", "sha256": "b935ef4cf6206ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "n the new Bill, re-presented last week, on 14 November , part 3 is now about the responsibility of the commission to set targets. In addition to the four different Conservative positions cited by the Prime Minister last week, I can also advise the House on the contents of the Conservative research department's briefing on the Queen's Speech. On the subject of binding annual targets, it says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-20", "file": "debates2006-11-20c.xml", "sha256": "b935ef4cf6206ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.378.3", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "oment. The Conservative research department document starts by saying that year-on-year targets are essential to reduce emissions. It goes on to say, in respect of annual targets, that it does not expect the Government to meet them precisely each year. Instead, it proposes rolling targets. The binding commitments are, in fact, \"rolling\" and the targets are changed annually, not hit annually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.378.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-20", "file": "debates2006-11-20c.xml", "sha256": "b935ef4cf6206ea6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Miliband", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Miliband", "preceding_text": "I can tell him very clearly that carbon emissions have risen by 1.5 per cent. and that greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 7 per cent. while the economy has grown by 25 per cent. For the first time in our industrial history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-20c.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "1ac49f5b01d980d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21b.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ution. That does not mean that people cannot argue that it should be reformed, or that it should not change its methodology. A review of the Parades Commission is going to be undertaken. I should add—and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would have made this point—that the Parades Commission has done an excellent job this year. The marching season was the most peaceful on record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21b.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "1ac49f5b01d980d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21b.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "he legislature in the long term, but I would counsel the need to keep the large numbers. The hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington) talked about the need for normal politics. I cannot help but reflect that Northern Ireland is not greatly different from the central belt of Scotland, where Protestant and Catholic working-class people have a truce and, by and large, vote for a radical party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21b.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "1ac49f5b01d980d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21b.462.5", "colnum": "462", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "s the key issue affecting their security and way of life in the Province. It cannot be ditched as part of a deal. Everybody has to be secure and confident about the issue before we move forward. I say to people in Northern Ireland that even if one of my colleagues were to be the Minister responsible for the issue, we would still do better not to have it included in the early stages of devolution .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21b.462.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "1ac49f5b01d980d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21b.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "On the issue of criminal assets, we are glad to hear the news today of the freezing of the assets of one 'Slab' Murphy, whom Gerry Adams described as a decent republican—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21b.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21b.xml", "sha256": "1ac49f5b01d980d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21b.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": ". Member for Belfast, East—as I always do, regardless of whether I agree with him, which I rarely do—and by the leader of his party, the right hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) . From what they have said, as well as from other responses and interventions, it is clear to me and to the Government that the DUP does not regard the 26 March deadline as a deadline at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21b.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.391.9", "colnum": "391", "heading": "TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Lee Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lee Scott", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State please tell us whether provision for road pricing will be made in the draft road transport Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.391.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Hain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Hain", "preceding_text": "ution. That does not mean that people cannot argue that it should be reformed, or that it should not change its methodology. A review of the Parades Commission is going to be undertaken. I should add—and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would have made this point—that the Parades Commission has done an excellent job this year. The marching season was the most peaceful on record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Go on. Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is right to be cynical about so-called unbreakable deadlines set by this Government. Last weekend, at least one DUP Member of Parliament was briefing the political correspondent of The Sunday Times . He was not named, so I will not risk attempting to guess who it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.455.0", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "he legislature in the long term, but I would counsel the need to keep the large numbers. The hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington) talked about the need for normal politics. I cannot help but reflect that Northern Ireland is not greatly different from the central belt of Scotland, where Protestant and Catholic working-class people have a truce and, by and large, vote for a radical party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.462.5", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "s the key issue affecting their security and way of life in the Province. It cannot be ditched as part of a deal. Everybody has to be secure and confident about the issue before we move forward. I say to people in Northern Ireland that even if one of my colleagues were to be the Minister responsible for the issue, we would still do better not to have it included in the early stages of devolution .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.462.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.471.0", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Nigel Dodds", "preceding_text": "On the issue of criminal assets, we are glad to hear the news today of the freezing of the assets of one 'Slab' Murphy, whom Gerry Adams described as a decent republican—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alasdair McDonnell", "preceding_text": "No, I am on a time constraint here. I am sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": ". Member for Belfast, East—as I always do, regardless of whether I agree with him, which I rarely do—and by the leader of his party, the right hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) . From what they have said, as well as from other responses and interventions, it is clear to me and to the Government that the DUP does not regard the 26 March deadline as a deadline at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "tate confirm for the record that there is absolutely no question of ripping up the Belfast agreement, and that what is being proposed would not in any way overturn what was agreed and voted on by thousands and thousands of people in 1998? That would be shameful. It was a cornerstone of the agreement that the First Minister and Deputy First Minister were to be jointly elected. It was to say —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.475.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "o be jointly elected. It was to say —[Interruption.] Actually, joint election meant that the Unionist community had a veto over who was the Deputy First Minister. Now, by courtesy of caving in to the DUP, the Unionists —[Interruption.] I am sorry—let us look at the Bill in detail later this evening. I would like the DUP to say why it did not table an amendment to clause 9 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lady Hermon", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is shameful that the Government have stuffed through in a very short time today major constitutional changes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.476.4", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "Before I begin, I have been asked to pass on the apologies of my hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) , the Chairman of the Select Committee, who made a speech earlier. He had to leave for other parliamentary business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-21", "file": "debates2006-11-21c.xml", "sha256": "7ba9e040b4bb2ad3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.497.2", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Simpson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Simpson", "preceding_text": "nments, we see that Sinn Fein-IRA have taken them for a ride time and again. I believe that this time will be no different. In the past few days I have been on a tour of south Armagh, and I visited police stations. I was shown seven or eight illegal fuel operations, but I learned today that some of them may now have been seized and closed. I visited a farmer who, two weeks prior to my visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-21c.497.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-22", "file": "debates2006-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "4d1d1a565aad6b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-22c.534.4", "colnum": "534", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Gregory Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gregory Campbell", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that reply, but despite the nice words, we now have the most stringent equality legislation in the entire United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-22c.534.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-22", "file": "debates2006-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "4d1d1a565aad6b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-22c.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": " Conservatives something. They talk about the inequality or inadequacy of the health funding and its disbursement, but their policy is to ensure that \"NHS resource allocation...reflects more accurately the fact that most NHS resources should be given to those areas where the disease burden is highest.\" That is his policy. If we did that, we would have to reduce health service spending in his area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-22c.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-22", "file": "debates2006-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "4d1d1a565aad6b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-22c.543.5", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ovided a new angiography treatment unit, a new GP practice, 5,500 more nurses and almost 800 more consultants in his area. Yes, there will be changes in any health service—there should be changes as the changing pattern of health care demands them. In the past few years, we have increased the number of people working in the health service, cut the waiting times and lists dramatically —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-22c.543.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-22", "file": "debates2006-11-22c.xml", "sha256": "4d1d1a565aad6b4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-22c.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Helpful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Willie Rennie", "preceding_text": "I thank the Minister for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-22c.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "K to conduct his study, which he has been doing to great effect. Moreover, his proposals will be against the background of huge improvements in the numbers of passengers travelling on the railways in the past 10 years. Given that under the Conservatives there was inexorable decline and continued disruption in the railways and for the passengers carried, for there to have been a 40 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "isruption in the railways and for the passengers carried, for there to have been a 40 per cent.— [Interruption.] Even the shadow Secretary of State for Transport now accepts that privatisation was a disaster, in the way it went forward. For there to have been an increase of 40 per cent. under Labour is astonishing. On the Olympics, Ken Livingstone is a loyal member of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "e often think that prison policy is just about being tough on crime, but half of all crime is committed by ex-cons, so the failure to rehabilitate criminals is, in itself, a cause of crime. The shortfall in prison places is in major part a consequence of the Chancellor seeing every successive Home Secretary as a rival—indeed, as his main rival—at the time that they were Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "nt through it reoffended. Their drug treatment and testing orders had a failure rate of 80 per cent. last year, and reoffending rates after prison have soared to record levels as a direct result of overcrowding, which means that the public face hundreds of thousands of extra crimes. That is a dire indictment of Government policy, and because of that policy failure the system as a whole has failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "of sources or techniques. That would be fair to the accused and not allow the defence to go on a fishing expedition into the evidence. That is straightforward, workable and fair. Many people support it, not least Lord Lloyd, a Law Lord and past interception commissioner. Last week, I watched the Home Secretary receiving the politician of the year award from The Spectator. I congratulate him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.709.1", "colnum": "709", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I was not calculating the crime figures at the time when they were going through the roof and police numbers were falling, but by any comparable standard, we have reduced crime by 35 per cent.under this Government, compared with an increase of 100 per cent. under the Conservative Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.715.0", "colnum": "715", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "ation and nationality directorate, a plan to transform Home Office service delivery and a plan to rebalance the criminal justice system, all of which have now been put in the public domain and all of which I am trying to lead through with the chief civil servants. What the hon. Gentleman tells me happened with the letter that took so long to reach him is unforgivable, and I make no apology for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.715.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "No, I do not have time because many Back-Bench Members wish to speak. The hon. Gentleman is familiar with the list. We would restore the right to protest in Westminster, we would scrap ID cards and we would make sure that the money saved from ID cards goes towards making a difference to citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "We will look at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "We will look at that. [Laughter.] Let me draw from my own experience. In the two housing estates in my constituency in Sheffield I have spent a lot of time with residents who complain about antisocial behaviour and disruptive neighbours. What they want is a change in the lettings policy run by Sheffield city council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.743.0", "colnum": "743", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "sh;and that there are no negatives associated with it. The specific economic justifications that they have given all imply that the benefits are proportionate to the numbers that come here. They have never given any reason why any economic migrant should not be permitted to enter the country. They say that we should welcome lawful immigration—why should not we welcome all economic migration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.743.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "r a period, but that so many people come out of prison to commit further crimes is a scandal. As politicians, we should be brave enough to talk about the abolition of prison as we know it. Of course, it would be a vote loser, but I can say such things now. Prison as a one-stop shop for all offenders does not work effectively. About half of all prisoners should be in some kind of secure unit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23b.xml", "sha256": "5f92f1c0cebf5370", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "preceding_text": "That limit should be determined by the demand for workers—by the number of jobs that are available. If we cannot find enough people—British citizens—to fill vacant posts in our economy, we should welcome as many from abroad as we need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23b.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "K to conduct his study, which he has been doing to great effect. Moreover, his proposals will be against the background of huge improvements in the numbers of passengers travelling on the railways in the past 10 years. Given that under the Conservatives there was inexorable decline and continued disruption in the railways and for the passengers carried, for there to have been a 40 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "isruption in the railways and for the passengers carried, for there to have been a 40 per cent.— [Interruption.] Even the shadow Secretary of State for Transport now accepts that privatisation was a disaster, in the way it went forward. For there to have been an increase of 40 per cent. under Labour is astonishing. On the Olympics, Ken Livingstone is a loyal member of the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.688.3", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I know that is not what Ken is saying, but it does not alter the fact that what I am saying is the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.688.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.691.2", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I will do my best. I understand the concern that the hon. Gentleman correctly raises about the effect of bats—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.691.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.691.6", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name names. Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "Like the hon. Gentleman, I am always happy to toady to the Press Gallery and congratulate Britain's finest journalists there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.691.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.703.4", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "e often think that prison policy is just about being tough on crime, but half of all crime is committed by ex-cons, so the failure to rehabilitate criminals is, in itself, a cause of crime. The shortfall in prison places is in major part a consequence of the Chancellor seeing every successive Home Secretary as a rival—indeed, as his main rival—at the time that they were Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.703.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.703.4", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "nt through it reoffended. Their drug treatment and testing orders had a failure rate of 80 per cent. last year, and reoffending rates after prison have soared to record levels as a direct result of overcrowding, which means that the public face hundreds of thousands of extra crimes. That is a dire indictment of Government policy, and because of that policy failure the system as a whole has failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.703.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "Well, arrests do matter—this is about home affairs. The authorities took seven years to prosecute Abu Hamza. We were told that there was not enough evidence; he was convicted on 11 counts. We were told that they needed new laws to convict him; most of his convictions were under public order legislation from 1861.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.706.2", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Davis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Davis", "preceding_text": "of sources or techniques. That would be fair to the accused and not allow the defence to go on a fishing expedition into the evidence. That is straightforward, workable and fair. Many people support it, not least Lord Lloyd, a Law Lord and past interception commissioner. Last week, I watched the Home Secretary receiving the politician of the year award from The Spectator. I congratulate him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.706.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.709.3", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "I have not said for one moment that every single aspect of crime has been reduced. However, it is incontrovertible that crime has fallen by 35 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.709.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Reid", "preceding_text": "The vast bulk of it has been implemented. Some of it has not yet been implemented because not all legislation can be implemented immediately but in stages, which is sensible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.712.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "No, I do not have time because many Back Bench wish to speak. The hon. Gentleman is familiar with the list. We would restore the right to protest in Westminster, we would scrap ID cards and we would make sure that the money saved from ID cards goes towards making a difference to citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "We will look at that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Clegg", "preceding_text": "We will look at that. [Laughter.] Let me draw from my own experience. In the two housing estates in my constituency in Sheffield I have spent a lot of time with residents who complain about antisocial behaviour and disruptive neighbours. What they want is a change in the lettings policy run by Sheffield city council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.720.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Davies", "preceding_text": "ng results from the 2003 cohort? It shows categorically that reoffending rates are lower among prisoners who were given a custodial sentence of more than a year than among those who are given a shorter custodial sentence. It produced a graph that shows that the longer someone spends in prison, the less likely they are to reoffend. That seems to strike a blow to the liberal do-gooding agenda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.721.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Chope", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman objects, so I will give him an example. The road from Dundee to Arbroath has recently been widened, but it will not take any more traffic than it did as a single carriageway road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.755.0", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Oaten", "preceding_text": "d, but the fact that so many people come out of prison to commit further crimes is a scandal. As politicians, we should be brave enough to talk about the abolition of prison as we know it. Of course, it would be a vote loser, but I can say such things now. Prison as a one-stop shop for all offenders does not work effectively. About half of all prisoners should be in some kind of secure unit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.755.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-23", "file": "debates2006-11-23c.xml", "sha256": "4d96148dc7d4c4bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Fabian Hamilton", "preceding_text": "That limit should be determined by the demand for workers—by the number of jobs that are available. If we cannot find enough people—British citizens—to fill vacant posts in our economy, we should welcome as many from abroad as we need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-23c.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": ". Of course, he denies that; he wants us to believe that it was a complete coincidence that the chief assassin— the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Watson) —just happened to pop round to his house in Fife a couple of days earlier. He told us that all they did was sit down and watch a \"Postman Pat\" video together; it must have been the episode in which Pat kills the postmaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ound to his house in Fife a couple of days earlier. He told us that all they did was sit down and watch a \"Postman Pat\" video together; it must have been the episode in which Pat kills the postmaster. [Interruption.] But the question that the country is asking is not: why is the Chancellor so disloyal to the Prime Minister? It is: why does he think he would be so different from the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "the lead in medical technology. In transport, where we are still paying the price for decades of under-investment under the Conservatives, Rod Eddington, former chief executive of British Airways, will advise on future priorities. Kate Barker, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee will produce her report on planning. I turn to the skills needs of the economy. Allied to further education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ecast to reach 350,000 employees. In addition, the Further Education and Training Bill will deliver accountability of further education colleges. It will borrow from the community colleges model in America and will mean that there is greater individual choice. At the same time, more money will be spent on learning and skills as a result of the record investment in further education colleges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.847.2", "colnum": "847", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "oice. At the same time, more money will be spent on learning and skills as a result of the record investment in further education colleges— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Bone) has new figures on unemployment, I shall be happy to hear them. The new deal has helped 3.6 million people to find jobs. It has helped 1.8 million people into work and 980,000 people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.847.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The figure is 1,856, reduced to 1,500. The hon. Member for Wellingborough must know that, in the first few months of a Labour Government, the growth rate of the economy and the employment creation through the new deal were such that we were getting people back to work incredibly quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.849.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ng Back group's £50 billion, while the right hon. Member for Wokingham, who is chairman of the economic competitiveness group, suggests sums of even more than £50 billion. How do those figures add up? Let me tell the House that I remember exactly what happened. I have the Conservatives' election manifesto from 1992. What did they promise then? They said that they would bring stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.849.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ends up in what happened after 1992. It ends up not in tax cuts, but in 22 tax rises; it ends up not in spending rises, but in massive spending cuts; and it ends up in the shambles of an economic recession, with 15 per cent. interest rates, thousands losing their jobs, mortgage repossessions and negative equity. Perhaps the House should be aware that, whenthe final humiliation came in 1992 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.849.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": " go for tax cuts, spending rises and no discipline. They cannot face up to the big challenges on education and training. They cannot face up to the big challenges on poverty and dealing with public services. They cannot face up to the big challenges on skills and the innovative future that our economy needs. The only party that can face upto the challenges is the Labour party and this Government .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.849.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": " handbooks. In 1997, Tolley's Yellow Tax Handbook of the British tax code was 4,555 pages long; it is now 9,841. In a report published a week or so ago, the World Bank noticed that, among the major economies, only India has a longer tax code than the UK. Another rough and ready measure is Finance Acts. I say this with some feeling having served on the Committee on the previous Finance Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "company. He told me that he attended a conference the other day at which he found out that there are 3,000 physics PhDs in India, which is more than all the PhDs in the whole of Europe. Last year, the number of students taking physics A-level in this country was down 24 per cent. on the number in 1994. The number of chemistry students taking A-level is also down, though not by quite so much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.924.4", "colnum": "924", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "centage of children in persistent poverty is unchanged over the same period. That reminds us, if a reminder were needed, that good intentions do not translate automatically into good outcomes. Poverty exists, of course, right across the age spectrum. New Labour boasts of the success of pension credit, and clearly it has lifted several hundred thousand poor pensioners out of relative poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.924.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27b.xml", "sha256": "034ac292a44e8e30", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman needs to keep himself up to date. My right hon. Friend the Member for Darlington (Mr. Milburn) is not my flatmate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27b.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.839.7", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "I will not be breaking the promises that I make in opposition. Let us return to the last Home Secretary but one. His book is not selling as well as he hoped it would, although I bought a copy. It is ranked 1,104th by Amazon. Still, that is 78,949 places higher than another stocking-filler that has just been published, \"Moving Britain Forward: Selected Speeches\", by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.839.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": ". Of course, he denies that; he wants us to believe that it was a complete coincidence that the chief assassin— the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East (Mr. Watson) —just happened to pop round to his house in Fife a couple of days earlier. He told us that all they did was sit down and watch a \"Postman Pat\" video together; it must have been the episode in which Pat kills the postmaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.840.3", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "ound to his house in Fife a couple of days earlier. He told us that all they did was sit down and watch a \"Postman Pat\" video together; it must have been the episode in which Pat kills the postmaster. [Interruption.] But the question that the country is asking is not: why is the Chancellor so disloyal to the Prime Minister? It is: why does he think he would be so different from the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.840.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.841.5", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mark Pritchard", "preceding_text": "Is it not time that this Chancellor took some responsibility for our failing economy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.841.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.842.4", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "re attract because their tax rates for business are low.\" Let us be clear. The right hon. Member for Wokingham is chairman of the Conservative party's economic competitiveness working party. He produces recommendations, including considering the use of vouchers—this is the answer to the shadow Chancellor's point about the recommendation on poverty—in place of rights to public services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.842.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.843.7", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The savings ratio in the US is negative, but the economy continues to grow —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.843.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.843.9", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Should I take the Cornerstone group, the No Turning Back group or perhaps the hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Vaizey ) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.843.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.844.8", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "l be a financial services Bill, too. In addition, today we are publishing our document on long-term challenges facing the British economy. What was remarkable about the shadow Chancellor's speech was that none of those long-term challenges was addressed. We will face the global terrorist challenge by enhancing security. We have doubled the security budget from £1 billion to £2 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.844.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.844.8", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "the lead in medical technology. In transport, where we are still paying the price for decades of under-investment under the Conservatives, Rod Eddington, former chief executive of British Airways, will advise on future priorities. Kate Barker, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee will produce her report on planning. I turn to the skills needs of the economy. Allied to further education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.844.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I tried to do my research before the debate and the figures that I have say that unemployment has fallen from 1,856 to 1,500—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They're everywhere.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I tried to do my research before the debate and the figures that I have say that unemployment has fallen from 1,856 to 1,500—[Hon. Members: \"Where?\"] In Wellingborough. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman should look at the unemployment figures for his own constituency. He is of course a member of the No Turning Back group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.846.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "oice. At the same time, more money will be spent on learning and skills as a result of the record investment in further education colleges— [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Wellingborough (Mr. Bone) has new figures on unemployment, I shall be happy to hear them. The new deal has helped 3.6 million people to find jobs. It has helped 1.8 million people into work and 980,000 people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "for expanding schools, more finance for social care, money to review prescription charges, more tax credits for carers, more incentives for insurance for care, the provision of more social housing, more money for community land ownership schemes and more money for housing associations. In 1992, we decided as an Opposition that we would not make expensive commitments that we could not afford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.848.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.849.4", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but we got the new deal moving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.849.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The figure is 1,856, reduced to 1,500. The hon. Member for Wellingborough must know that, in the first few months of a Labour Government, the growth rate of the economy and the employment creation through the new deal were such that we were getting people back to work incredibly quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.849.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ng Back group's £50 billion, while the right hon. Member for Wokingham, who is chairman of the economic competitiveness group, suggests sums of even more than £50 billion. How do those figures add up? Let me tell the House that I remember exactly what happened. I have the Conservatives' election manifesto from 1992. What did they promise then? They said that they would bring stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.849.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.849.6", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "nds up in what happened after 1992. It ends up not in tax cuts, but in 22 tax rises; it ends up not in spending rises, but in massive spending cuts; and it ends up in the shambles of an economic recession, with 15 per cent. interest rates, thousands losing their jobs, mortgage repossessions and negative equity. Perhaps the House should be aware that, when the final humiliation came in 1992 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.849.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.870.2", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Michael Connarty", "preceding_text": "guaranteed people's money. The horse bolted down the road while the Financial Services Authority's stableman was asleep at the door. The FSA is great at introducing regulations after a crisis has occurred. The scandal would not have happened if the Conservative Government had not abolished section 332 of the Companies Act 1948, which would have prevented the company from being able to trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.870.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.884.2", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Gauke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Gauke", "preceding_text": " handbooks. In 1997, Tolley's Yellow Tax Handbook of the British tax code was 4,555 pages long; it is now 9,841. In a report published a week or so ago, the World Bank noticed that, among the major economies, only India has a longer tax code than the UK. Another rough and ready measure is Finance Acts. I say this with some feeling having served on the Committee on the previous Finance Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.901.5", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sally Keeble", "preceding_text": "Some people do not take the process up. I agree that that is an issue, just as it is an issue with the child trust fund. However, the figures for success show that the pension credit helps 1.9 million pensioners, of whom, significantly, 1.3 million are women. That is because it targets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.901.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Dunne", "preceding_text": "company. He told me that he attended a conference the other day at which he found out that there are 3,000 physics PhDs in India, which is more than all the PhDs in the whole of Europe. Last year, the number of students taking physics A-level in this country was down 24 per cent. on the number in 1994. The number of chemistry students taking A-level is also down, though not by quite so much—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.913.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.924.4", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Philip Hammond", "preceding_text": "centage of children in persistent poverty is unchanged over the same period. That reminds us, if a reminder were needed, that good intentions do not translate automatically into good outcomes. Poverty exists, of course, right across the age spectrum. New Labour boasts of the success of pension credit, and clearly it has lifted several hundred thousand poor pensioners out of relative poverty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.924.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "No, I will not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.928.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-27", "file": "debates2006-11-27c.xml", "sha256": "40a612efb63a5981", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.930.0", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman needs to keep himself up to date. My right hon. Friend the Member for Darlington (Mr. Milburn) is not my flatmate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-27c.930.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28b.xml", "sha256": "24581623f2905091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28b.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "he FSA sufficient time to consider the potential impact of proposed rule changes and ensuring that there is not unnecessary delay or uncertainty in the system. My hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West is quite right to make an observation about the lack of specified time limits for the representations in the Bill. He probably would have found that in the explanatory notes, as well .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28b.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.952.5", "colnum": "952", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "hat should be discussed when they check in for their ante-natal care with their midwives. We are providing a pack to every health professional, health visitor and midwife throughout the country; we are doing work with Sure Start; and we are providing my right hon. and hon. Friends, and hon. Members across Parliament, with information so that you, too, can spread the word across communities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.952.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Paddy Tipping", "preceding_text": "What research she has recently commissioned into patient satisfaction with the NHS.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.955.1", "colnum": "955", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "I am aware of that service, which is absolutely excellent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.955.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.956.4", "colnum": "956", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Patricia Hewitt", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must decide whether patients should be asked whether they are satisfied with the arrangements that their local GPs are making. He must also decide whether he thinks GPs should have been given the choice—which we gave them—of whether to provide out-of-hours services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.956.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I will check whether there is that discrepancy between the figures that the hon. Gentleman has brought to my attention, and if there is I will correct it. However, yet again he and other Conservative Members are seeking to spread anxiety by quoting figures that do not reflect the reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "repancy between the figures that the hon. Gentleman has brought to my attention, and if there is I will correct it. However, yet again he and other Conservative Members are seeking to spread anxiety by quoting figures that do not reflect the reality. [Interruption.] They seek to create an impression that P45s are being handed out to nurses up and down the country; in reality, that is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andy Burnham", "preceding_text": "I do not agree with that statement. The hon. Gentleman should cast his mind back to the NHS of the early 1990s before making such comments. Let us get the matter straight. The funding increase that his party voted against —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": " accept his point that an advantage of multi-year statements is that we can predict council tax increases in future, but a disadvantage of that sensible policy from the Government's point of view is that the propaganda and spin that he put on the figures is made worse. Such a practice does nothing other than unnecessarily frighten particularly vulnerable people, so I urge him not to indulge in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Will it be published?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "ons benefits his own authority, which is a floor authority. Without the floor, there would be a significant shortfall, and the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues would no doubt lobby me for the floor. I therefore expect a letter of thanks for it, although I doubt whether that will be in the Christmas box for the Woolas office this Christmas. The Lyons report will be complete by the end of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Phil Woolas", "preceding_text": "floor, there would be a significant shortfall, and the hon. Gentleman and his colleagues would no doubt lobby me for the floor. I therefore expect a letter of thanks for it, although I doubt whether that will be in the Christmas box for the Woolas office this Christmas. The Lyons report will be complete by the end of the year. [Hon. Members: \"Will it be published?\"] Of course it will be published.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kerry McCarthy", "preceding_text": "ply did not understand the risks that the bank was taking. I am a member of the Treasury Committee, which has discussed with the FSA how it regulates matters such as hedge funds and the current risk-based system of assessment. I am confident that the FSA appreciates what the banks that operate out of the UK are doing, what sort of business they are engaged in and what risks are associated with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.1021.0", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Second!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Paul Goodman", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity during this short Third Reading debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.1021.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-28", "file": "debates2006-11-28c.xml", "sha256": "518727906b9f3b5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.1025.1", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "John Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Healey", "preceding_text": "he FSA sufficient time to consider the potential impact of proposed rule changes and ensuring that there is not unnecessary delay or uncertainty in the system. My hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West is quite right to make an observation about the lack of specified time limits for the representations in the Bill. He probably would have found that in the explanatory notes, as well .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-28c.1025.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "04e808c0f90f63a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29b.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "t, and we do not intend to move into those. Secondly, some of these cases involve very complex evidence having to be presented to the jurors. The jurors on fraud cases sometimes face the physical and mental task of listening to complex and obscure evidence involving a large number of defendants making interlinked financial transactions over a number of years, with detailed cross-examination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29b.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "04e808c0f90f63a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29b.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I do not entirely understand that intervention. Is the argument that we are dealing with the Judicature Acts—that in civil cases judges sit alone? If it is seriously argued in respect of the liberty of the subject that in criminal cases involving imprisonment and the removal of liberty we can move to a civil judicial system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29b.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "04e808c0f90f63a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29b.1130.5", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "case the Government were trying to get at the assets of those engaged in serious crime—which involved huge sums—and cut down on such criminality. In this case, too, we are talking about cases involving huge sums. Whether or not the Opposition intend it, the effect is the same—their so-called defence of principle is in fact a defence of those engaged in serious white-collar crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29b.1130.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29b.xml", "sha256": "04e808c0f90f63a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29b.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "sed? If so, that makes no sense unless the implication is that more complex indictments could be brought forward if juries were got rid of and, in turn, that makes no sense unless the concomitant implication is that judges are able to understand what juries cannot. My contention is that the only logical conclusion to be drawn from what the Solicitor-General has said is the one that I have set out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29b.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We can't hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I am not so sure that the hon. Gentleman's analysis is correct. I recognise that he spends an awful lot of time looking at economic data, but the latest report that I have seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1078.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1078.1", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "conomic data, but the latest report that I have seen—[Hon. Members: \"We can't hear.\"] I am sorry. I was just recognising the hon. Gentleman's ability to contribute a great deal of information to our economic debates. However, the latest analysis that I have seen suggests that the differential between north and south has been reduced, thanks to work of the regional development agencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1078.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ws about these matters at different times. I have been doing some research into his record, and have discovered that both his arguments and his politics have moved about a bit. He stood for Labour in Glasgow in 1970, for the Social Democratic party in York in 1983, and for the Liberal Democrats in Twickenham in 1992. With such nimble feet, it is no wonder that he lists ballroom dancing as a hobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1078.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1080.4", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Leech", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Leech", "preceding_text": "The Deputy Prime Minister will be aware that lung cancer accounts for more than one in five cancer deaths. As we approach the end of lung cancer awareness month—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1080.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1080.7", "colnum": "1080", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I know that there is a great deal in what the hon. Gentleman says. I think what the Government have done in the health service, particularly in regard to cancer treatment, is a very good process and has done very well, and we should be particularly proud of it. If he looks at his own area, he will find that the amount of nurses, doctors and hospital investment has improved considerably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1080.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak into the microphone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend must recognise that in all these cases, first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I notice that the right hon. Gentleman has still not given us the figure that he says we robbed from pension funds. On the Maxwell pension fund that he talked about, let me tell him that it took this Government to bring in legislation to correct that abuse and that it was the previous Government who allowed pension holidays —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1082.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1082.2", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "More!", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "evision today that the Tories have now brought in a new person to get people to vote Tory, and I could not help noticing that the person is named, as I saw on the website, \"Mr. Tosser\". I do not know which person on the Front Bench this man is modelled on, but let me tell the right hon. Gentleman that I always thought that his party was full of them, and that is why they have lost three elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1084.3", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will recall that when I visited his constituency there was extreme concern about the amount of resources going into flood protection—and rightly so. Following those meetings, we have put in record amounts, with an increase of something like 35 per cent. in real terms from the level in 1996-97 to £600 million in 2005-06—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1084.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1094.3", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"At this stage?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "We have no intention at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1094.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "The Solicitor-General said that lengthy cases place an undue burden on the jury. However, as the hon. and learned Member for Medway (Mr. Marshall-Andrews) will testify, lengthy cases take place week in, week out at the central criminal court, the Old Bailey, sometimes lasting for months—yet the Government do not suggest that they should be removed from the jury system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ot, and we do not intend to move into those. Secondly, some of these cases involve very complex evidence having to be presented to the jurors. The jurors on fraud cases sometimes face the physical and mental task of listening to complex and obtuse evidence involving a large number of defendants making interlinked financial transactions over a number of years, with detailed cross-examination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1101.8", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "In response to the sedentary intervention of the right hon. and learned Gentleman, I, or rather you, Mr. Speaker, will be the judge of the rights of Back Benchers in this case. Let me not usurp the right of the arbiter. A judge can curtail lengthy speeches by windbag journalists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1101.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": "secutions Office, which involve substantial financial transactions that could have drugs deals as an adjunct, might well come before such a court. Our view, however, is that the number of cases involved will be limited. We are really considering the sorts of cases dealt with by the Serious Fraud Office. I suspect that the case to which the hon. Gentleman refers was not prosecuted by the SFO—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mike O'Brien", "preceding_text": " considering. Some cases prosecuted by the RCPO might also fall within that category. A fairly limited range of cases are involved. The Bill also contains a provision, which was requested by the Opposition, for a High Court judge both to hear the application for a non-jury trial and to conduct such trials. I therefore hope that the Opposition now feel able to support the Bill. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1108.3", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "and evidence despite the length of time that had elapsed since the case collapsed, the fact that they did not have their notes or access to documents nor an opportunity to think back and refresh their memories, and the fact that they had not heard all the evidence, arguments and summing up. They recalled particular parts of the evidence and particular witnesses and the substance of their evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1108.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Marshall-Andrews", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I do not entirely understand that intervention. Is the argument that we are dealing with the Judicature Acts—that in civil cases judges sit alone? If it is seriously argued in respect of the liberty of the subject that in criminal cases involving imprisonment and the removal of liberty we can move to a civil judicial system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1130.5", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Hesford", "preceding_text": "case the Government were trying to get at the assets of those engaged in serious crime—which involved huge sums—and cut down on such criminality. In this case, too, we are talking about cases involving huge sums. Whether or not the Opposition intend it, the effect is the same—their so-called defence of principle is in fact a defence of those engaged in serious white-collar crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1130.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1147.1", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Quentin Davies", "preceding_text": "sed? If so, that makes no sense unless the implication is that more complex indictments could be brought forward if juries were got rid of and, in turn, that makes no sense unless the concomitant implication is that judges are able to understand what juries cannot. My contention is that the only logical conclusion to be drawn from what the Solicitor-General has said is the one that I have set out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-29", "file": "debates2006-11-29c.xml", "sha256": "0c0210f87d70644f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1173.2", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Joan Ryan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Joan Ryan", "preceding_text": "x of the argument for many Members. The first thing that makes them different is the combination of great length and a failure to bring defendants to justice on the full range of allegations. There are also the recommendations of judges who have produced serious reports, such as Roskill and Auld, to whom I have referred. They have identified serious and complex fraud cases as a particular problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-29c.1173.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30b.xml", "sha256": "79ac51f04ec4a578", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30b.1320.0", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": " is standing in for the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Carmichael) , but some of the comments that the hon. Member for Manchester, Withington made just do not chime with reality. At the beginning of his speech, he said that the Government were letting the public down in terms of passenger safety. He is clearly not aware that passenger safety on the railways is at an all time high —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30b.1320.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1203.5", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "Next year, the Government will bring forward a directive in respect of unfair activity in that area. We will do that in a non-partisan way —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1203.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1204.3", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ian McCartney", "preceding_text": "ted £500,000 of gift aid will ensure that administrative expenses do not eat up every pound that people have put into the fund. In addition, we have agreed with the administrator that he will go back to court to cover the period from 11 to 13 October for repayments in excess of £300,000, which we hope will be made by Christmas. Using the Consumer Credit Act 1974, we have secured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1204.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Robert Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Robert Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister agree that compensation of 15p in the pound for Farepak customers is a national disgrace and will ruin many people's Christmas? In my constituency, people have lost more than £100,000 and because of the poor rate of compensation, the Reading Chronicle has today launched a local appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "It is palpable nonsense to accuse the current Home Secretary of hiding behind anyone else. He is always delighted to be in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1230.0", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "That is a recommendation from an advisory body; it is not a decision by Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1258.8", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Garnier", "preceding_text": "I am making a speech, so I tend to prepare for, and to listen, to what I am about to say. I am paying attention. Let me move on to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1258.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1292.4", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "debating the issues of 10 years ago rather than the issues of the future. It is true that there have been some real highs and lows on the railways in the decade since privatisation, but, as the Minister rightly said, the practical reality is that today, 10 years after privatisation, the railways carry more passengers each year than a rather larger network did before the Beeching cuts in the 1960s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1292.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1294.1", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "will also deliver radical improvements for passengers, motorists, business—and all of us as citizens concerned about congestion, safety and a better environment.\" The document promised a transformation on the railways. It promised the modernisation of our main rail arteries, such as the west coast main line, by 2010. We can put a tick in the box for that one. The east coast main line —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1294.1", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "ff my phone, Mr. Deputy Speaker; I do apologise. The east coast main line has been forgotten. The Government are about to start improving the Great Western main line, but there will be no improvement in capacity. We were promised upgrades to our suburban railways in London, Birmingham and Manchester. We were promised less congestion, more rail freight and upgrades of the routes to our major ports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1295.3", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Chris Grayling", "preceding_text": "st to get off at Birmingham New Street and cross over several platforms to change trains. New Street is probably Britain's most overcrowded station, but the imperative for improvement comes not from a lack of platforms but from the available space on the concourse. Only this Government would think that it was a good idea to have more people get off at Birmingham New Street to change trains —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-11-30", "file": "debates2006-11-30c.xml", "sha256": "72927ea9180b0746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Tom Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tom Harris", "preceding_text": " is standing in for the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Carmichael) , but some of the comments that the hon. Member for Manchester, Withington made just do not chime with reality. At the beginning of his speech, he said that the Government were letting the public down in terms of passenger safety. He is clearly not aware that passenger safety on the railways is at an all-time high —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-11-30c.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-04", "file": "debates2006-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "fc5a78e0d3bd2ceb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04a.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to my hon. Friend's question in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04a.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-04", "file": "debates2006-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "92503984364556a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.26.0", "colnum": "26", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Menzies Campbell", "preceding_text": "bligations. The Prime Minister says that the decision is a matter of judgment, and he is right; but it is my judgment that we can give proper consideration to all those factors only by postponing a decision, perhaps until 2014, by cutting the number of warheads by half to 100, and by extending the life of the existing submarines. There are many estimates available other than those contained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.26.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-04", "file": "debates2006-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "92503984364556a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Again, that is a perfectly understandable judgment for people to come to. Some would say, \"Spend this money on conventional defence.\" My hon. Friend says, \"Don't spend it on defence at all, but spend it on poverty reduction programmes, or public services in our country.\" But in the end the question is: will we make our country less safe if we give up this deterrent?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-04", "file": "debates2006-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "92503984364556a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Lloyd", "preceding_text": "as a director is a very effective penalty. Therefore, I support the concept that my right hon. Friend puts forward in his new clause. There are several reasons why it is necessary to have individual liability. First among them is that, in the end, this is not about vengeance; it is about what the public expect for those who are grossly negligent in a way that leads to the death of innocent people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.55.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-04", "file": "debates2006-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "92503984364556a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.74.2", "colnum": "74", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": " which he raised in Committee, too. He knows why we do not think that such a measure would be appropriate at this time. In an earlier contribution, he asked me to outline where we were on corporate probation and reparatory orders, and he asked what we wanted to do about naming and shaming. I am happy to reconfirm our position on all those points, and I may get the opportunity to do so later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.74.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-04", "file": "debates2006-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "92503984364556a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "I accept that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-04", "file": "debates2006-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "92503984364556a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.87.1", "colnum": "87", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to my hon. Friend's question in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.87.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-04", "file": "debates2006-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "92503984364556a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dominic Grieve", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I do not have the precise figures, but that ties in with my recollection. We are not talking about one or two such cases a decade. There is a consistent pattern of suicide in prison, for which no blame can attach to anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-04", "file": "debates2006-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "92503984364556a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.105.0", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gerry Sutcliffe", "preceding_text": "It does make sense, and the hon. Gentleman makes the case for me when he talks about the environment in which the Prison Service operates. He is entitled to a point of view opposed to mine, as are all Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.105.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-04", "file": "debates2006-12-04b.xml", "sha256": "92503984364556a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.124.0", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Minister on the good humour with which he has conducted the debates, apart from perhaps the debate on the last group of amendments, when it got rather silly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-04b.124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "f4a65cdf5df9ef17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": " we commissioned the Eddington report and why we take competitiveness and transport seriously. The hon. Member for South-West Norfolk (Mr. Fraser) repeated his frequent plea for the final stage of the A11 to be dualled. He is passionate about the issue, having made many representations to me, but he needs to work in the local region to ensure that it gives the scheme the highest possible priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "I could certainly give the hon. Gentleman many examples of advice that we have given that has been accepted by Washington. As regards Kendall Myers, I had never heard of him before and I do not suppose that I shall ever hear of him again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend reminds me from a sedentary position that we did not vote against it on Third Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Lansley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not been listening. We are against top-down targets that impact on the services that clinicians provide. We are not against public health targets; I have never said that I am against public health targets. The last Conservative Government had targets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.170.0", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Caroline Flint", "preceding_text": "It would be very easy to think that we could come to power and, with a wave of the wand, rectify all the unnecessary damage that the Tory Government did in nearly 20 years in power. If one examines the various reports produced during the Tory years—the Black report was just one—one sees that a widening health inequalities gap was being identified in the 1980s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "asgow and 78 in Manchester. After the birth of their child, mothers have to make a choice about feeding and it is widely acknowledged that breast feeding is best. Again, it is strongly associated with social class. Figures comparing breast feeding rates between 2000 and 2005 show that the overall rate has fallen—and mostly in the lower social classes. I welcome the new scheme for food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "I cannot really answer for my colleagues in Hull—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "I cannot really answer for my colleagues in Hull— [ Interruption.] I do not know the full story. It might have been prompted by a funding problem from central Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.181.9", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "I am not quite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.181.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.182.3", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sandra Gidley", "preceding_text": "n—syphilis rates have increased by more than 2,000 per cent., and chlamydia rates by 197 per cent. Disappointingly, despite the chlamydia screening programme, even the last year-on-year increase was 4 per cent. Although the screening programme is welcome, its roll-out around the country seems to have taken quite a long time. Why does that programme screen 14 times as many men as women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.182.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.187.3", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": " eat what they want without having to be told.\" She capped off her comments by saying: \"There is all this talk about obesity but there is not one obese child in that school...there are a few chubby ones.\" She went on to say, \"I've got a bit of weight myself\", or words to that effect. If that is seriously the level of response from Opposition Front-Bench Members to the incidents in Rotherham—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Dorrell", "preceding_text": "ecommendation. The CMO's second recommendation is that \"Health service commissioners should take steps to satisfy themselves that expenditure on public health reflects the needs of their population.\" I believe that Ministers accept that now. It is a pity that during the 10 years in which the Labour Government have been in office, they have not focused resourceson need through commissioning —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.199.3", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nadine Dorries", "preceding_text": "hold of it, they can ring their GP. The highest users of the morning-after pill belong to the ABC1 group. They may ring up their GP practice to make an appointment, only to be told that one is not available for five days. However, they will insist that they see a doctor or, alternatively, they can go to the pharmacist and pay £25 for the morning-after pill, because they can afford to pay it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Peter Bone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Peter Bone", "preceding_text": "led miserably and completely to do that, especially in north Northamptonshire. It was right for Her Majesty's Opposition to use the Opposition day to highlight the Government's failure to reduce health inequalities. Let me begin by setting out the founding principle of the national health service. It is that everyone should have access to similar health provision wherever they live in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.205.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laura Moffatt", "preceding_text": "e inequalities in those constituencies and they have to micro-manage some aspects. That is why Sure Start has been so successful in getting into those areas. We have heard much about the edifices of health care and how some Members are stuck on having to defend a specific hospital because any closure is perceived as a cut, when innovative thinking is about getting away from such perceptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "ohnson) , who sits on the Conservative Front Bench, to those parents—possibly constituents of my right hon. Friend—who stuffed hamburgers through school gates, saying that their children should be allowed to eat what they want. The hon. Gentleman said that he fully agreed with them. What kind of responsible action is that from someone who seeks to serve in a Government of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Alexander", "preceding_text": "sis of our transport network and the capacity and congestion challenges that we face. In response, the Conservatives published what they call a transport strategy document, which amounts to a whole 17 pages. Five of the pages are dedicated to what they describe as \"illustrative examples of the kind of people who are affected by the Government's failings on transport and are not real case studies\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.230.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-05", "file": "debates2006-12-05b.xml", "sha256": "18670a7fe5e4f3fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Opposition Day — [1(st) Allotted Day]", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Ladyman", "preceding_text": " we commissioned the Eddington report and why we take competitiveness and transport seriously. The hon. Member for South-West Norfolk (Mr. Fraser) repeated his frequent plea for the final stage of the A11 to be dualled. He is passionate about the issue, having made many representations to me, but he needs to work in the local region to ensure that it gives the scheme the highest possible priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-05b.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "c19d62cdc144cf2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.299.6", "colnum": "299", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Yesterday, the new head of Ofsted said that the number of 11 year-olds who cannot read was a national disaster. One fifth of school children cannot find Great Britain on the map. The Prime Minister may be spending extra money, but he is not getting the basics right. Now let us turn to secondary school education. Yesterday the Treasury, the home of the clunking fist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.299.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "c19d62cdc144cf2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "n cutting pollution. The fourth challenge is to spend public money wisely. The Chancellor once pledged to rise to that challenge. Does he remember saying when he was shadow Chancellor that he wanted to be remembered as a wise spender, not a big spender? His political obituary will say many things, but not that: he has spent £4,000 billion, and now he pledges more spending on education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "c19d62cdc144cf2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ation is concerned, I think that the hon. Gentleman will find that 1.6 million people were unemployed when we came to power. The figure is now less than a million. He will also find that there were 26 million people in employment when we came to power, whereas there were 29 million at the last count. Over the past nine years, unemployment has fallen and employment has gone up substantially —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "c19d62cdc144cf2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": " pragmatist. It is possible to make inferences from the people intimately around him, from his first statement on the Bank of England, from the economic tests, from the direction in which he has pitched his economic policies towards a more transatlantic approach and from the views of commentators such as Robert Peston and Tom Bower. They all provide some indication that under the presidency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "c19d62cdc144cf2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": " Gentleman's comment from a sedentary position. Nevertheless, the economy has done well in recent years, and we must give credit to the Chancellor for presiding over that success. His greatest success, however, is that he and the Treasury kept us out of the eurozone—a splendid decision that I fully support. In doing so, he has saved the British economy an enormous amount of difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "c19d62cdc144cf2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister said: \"What my right hon. Friend is doing on behalf of this country in Europe is absolutely excellent.\"—[ Official Report, 1 November 2006; Vol. 451, c. 295 .] Obviously, relations have been repaired, as he went off to Riga and is in his place tonight answering this debate. We are delighted to see him and even more delighted than usual as I gather it is his birthday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06b.xml", "sha256": "c19d62cdc144cf2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"She is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "least in Iraq, the middle east and Sudan, and we need to co-operate more closely with them on that. His amendment to the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill—which, as he said, was supported by Conservative Front Benchers—was an innovative solution to which, I am sure, we will wish to return. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston(Ms Stuart) , who, sadly, is not in her seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06b.403.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.299.6", "colnum": "299", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "Yesterday, the new head of Ofsted said that the number of 11-year-olds who cannot read was a national disaster. One fifth of school children cannot find Great Britain on the map. The Prime Minister may be spending extra money, but he is not getting the basics right. Now let us turn to secondary school education. Yesterday the Treasury, the home of the clunking fist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.299.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "I do not know about the comparison with the Republic of Ireland, but let me give the hon. Gentleman a comparison between this Government and the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wait!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Dismore", "preceding_text": "Will he ensure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "averaging since 1997 2.4 per cent. From 1997 to—and including—this year, our productivity per worker has moved 3 per cent. ahead of Germany and11 per cent. ahead of Japan. We have halved the gap with France and we are the only G7 country to narrow the gap with the United States. As productivity continues to rise, this year alone there are 200,000 more men and women in employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "o are not in education or employment, to help them into training and then into work. We will consult on £2,000 bursaries for looked-after children to encourage them to go to university. We will also consult on a new path for entry to university, in which students volunteer in return for a reduction in tuition fees. To ensure that every child and young person has the best start in life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "tain would be to adopt a balanced budget policy, but to achieve that by cutting back on essential investment in schools and infrastructure would in my view weaken us for the global challenges ahead. I have also considered representations for a third fiscal rule, but that would require us to cut spending by£28 billion this year alone. That is a choice for Britain that I reject, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "for a future that is more competitive, more flexible and more global than ever before, but that is not what we got today. With this PBR, like the nine PBRs before it, Britain is moving further away from the direction in which we need to go. The Chancellor talked about growth. What he did not tell us is that the growth that he announced puts Britain 21st out of the 25 members of the European Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": " we got today. With this PBR, like the nine PBRs before it, Britain is moving further away from the direction in which we need to go. The Chancellor talked about growth. What he did not tell us is that the growth that he announced puts Britain 21st out of the 25 members of the European Union. [Interruption.] He denied it today and he shakes his head, but it is confirmed by the European Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "George Osborne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "George Osborne", "preceding_text": "n cutting pollution. The fourth challenge is to spend public money wisely. The Chancellor once pledged to rise to that challenge. Does he remember saying when he was shadow Chancellor that he wanted to be remembered as a wise spender, not a big spender? His political obituary will say many things, but not that: he has spent £4,000 billion, and now he pledges more spending on education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "e order of 15 per cent. in the 1990s; it is about 8 per cent. now. Of course, individuals have difficult problems that need to be dealt with; we need proper protection and advice for those people, but the hon. Gentleman must not compare a situation in the 1990s, when interest rates were 15 per cent. and people faced mortgage repossessions, with the situation now when interest rates are 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "of relative poverty is a major achievement, given that child poverty trebled in the years of the Conservative Government to more than 4 million. As I announced today, we will continue with additional measures to take people out of poverty. The hon. Gentleman's points to me about prudence pale into insignificance when I look at his policies. He is promising to cut taxes and to raise spending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "tinue with additional measures to take people out of poverty. The hon. Gentleman's points to me about prudence pale into insignificance when I look at his policies. He is promising to cut taxes and to raise spending—[Hon. Members: \"No\".] Every day I read a Liberal press release that promises an additional increase in spending. The hon. Gentleman now says that he wants to cut borrowing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.319.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.324.4", "colnum": "324", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "Opposition Front Benchers say, \"Hear, hear.\" We operate exactly the same rules and procedures that operated under the previous Conservative Government in this respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "If I am right, the criticism was made against the previous Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.332.4", "colnum": "332", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "ation is concerned, I think that the hon. Gentleman will find that 1.6 million people were unemployed when we came to power. The figure is now less than a million. He will also find that there were 26 million people in employment when we came to power, whereas there were 29 million at the last count. Over the past nine years, unemployment has fallen and employment has gone up substantially —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Gordon Brown", "preceding_text": "The health service has already beengiven £5 billion more this year, and it will get between £5 billion and £6 billion more next year; I have announced those figures before. The hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Mr. MacNeil) says that he resents the fact that we had to raise money from air passenger duty. I think that he said that we would raise £2 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Margaret Beckett", "preceding_text": "First, the Government did not make a prediction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.338.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "William Cash", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Cash", "preceding_text": " pragmatist. It is possible to make inferences from the people intimately around him, from his first statement on the Bank of England, from the economic tests, from the direction in which he has pitched his economic policies towards a more transatlantic approach and from the views of commentators such as Robert Peston and Tom Bower. They all provide some indication that under the presidency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Kelvin Hopkins", "preceding_text": " Gentleman's comment from a sedentary position. Nevertheless, the economy has done well in recent years, and we must give credit to the Chancellor for presiding over that success. His greatest success, however, is that he and the Treasury kept us out of the eurozone—a splendid decision that I fully support. In doing so, he has saved the British economy an enormous amount of difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Charles Walker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Charles Walker", "preceding_text": "Thank you for calling me to speak so early on in the debate, Madam Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.398.1", "colnum": "398", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tobias Ellwood", "preceding_text": " Instead, it has taken on a political dimension; it has morphed into something quite different from what it started out as. On the second point, he is absolutely right that France is holding that up, but I do not see the British Government jumping up and down and pushing France and asking other countries to join us in saying, \"What a waste of money that is.\" Let me move on to what the EU could do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.398.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew MacKinlay", "preceding_text": "y and economically, but it also had a moral dimension. Of course, the fact that countries such as Poland—to which others have also referred today—are in the EU is a political act. Joining was extremely important to them, as a ratchet against the totalitarianism that they had endured for so long. This Labour Government can take some pride in that, whatever else might be on their record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "the Prime Minister said: \"What my right hon. Friend is doing on behalf of this country in Europe is absolutely excellent.\"—[ Official Report, 1 November 2006; Vol. 451, c. 295 .] Obviously, relations have been repaired, as he went off to Riga and is in his place tonight answering this debate. We are delighted to see him and even more delighted than usual as I gather it is his birthday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"She is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Geoffrey Clifton-Brown", "preceding_text": "least in Iraq, the middle east and Sudan, and we need to co-operate more closely with them on that. His amendment to the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill—which, as he said, was supported by Conservative Front Benchers—was an innovative solution to which, I am sure, we will wish to return. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston(Ms Stuart) , who, sadly, is not in her seat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-06", "file": "debates2006-12-06c.xml", "sha256": "8b1cf7747bcd3b2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "DELEGATED LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Geoff Hoon", "preceding_text": "The difference between our respective positions is that I have consistently supported the European Union. To change the EU, we must argue constructively and positively. I have never been entirely sure what the hon. Member for—I have forgotten his wretched constituency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-06c.410.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-07", "file": "debates2006-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "8747cae68ec806f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-07b.425.4", "colnum": "425", "heading": "TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Stephen Timms", "preceding_text": "Of course, under the Conservative Government there were serious problems with PFI.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-07b.425.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-07", "file": "debates2006-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "8747cae68ec806f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-07b.442.2", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "tial reactions to that at a press conference later today in Washington—[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"] Well, that is where he is. Even with his great skills, there is no way that he can suddenly whisk back here to make a statement. On the issue of a statement, it is not usual to make statements on bilateral visits of that kind. There will, of course, be Prime Minister's questions next Wednesday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-07b.442.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-07", "file": "debates2006-12-07b.xml", "sha256": "8747cae68ec806f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-07b.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "s at this time? Is it not important that we in no way undermine the morale of our service personnel in Iraq, while showing total solidarity with, and support for, the fledgling democracy in Iraq? Is it not important, therefore, that the Prime Minister, who is in the United States talking to President Bush about this issue, should make a statement in this House before we rise for the summer recess?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-07b.447.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-11", "file": "debates2006-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "8c495871f8796232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-11a.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "? The answer is that each of them is an attempt to provide a service on the cheap. If that is what the Bill seeks to do, its outcomes are doomed to failure. We heard from the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) , among others, about the savings that are envisaged in the regulatory assessment—some £625 million. We also know that contestability is nothing short of privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-11a.633.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-11", "file": "debates2006-12-11b.xml", "sha256": "d5b9e9b30dd3c5c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-11b.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer the question!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "hat is Kafka-esque about this situation is that the hon. Gentleman comes to the Dispatch Box against the background of having supported a Government who cut support to our armed forces in real terms by £500 million a year, but then complains that a Government who have provided £1 billion a year more progressively over their time in office are providing inadequate support to our troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-11b.569.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-11", "file": "debates2006-12-11b.xml", "sha256": "d5b9e9b30dd3c5c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-11b.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Elfyn Llwyd", "preceding_text": "? The answer is that each of them is an attempt to provide a service on the cheap. If that is what the Bill seeks to do, its outcomes are doomed to failure. We heard from the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) , among others, about the savings that are envisaged in the regulatory assessment—some £625 million. We also know that contestability is nothing short of privatisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-11b.633.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c365cd5cfccf9003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "olution—handing power from central Government to London on a series of issues. The Greater London Authority Bill and the local government and public involvement in health Bill aim to devolve power to London boroughs as well as to the Mayor to do a better job for London. I have to say that Conservative Members have adopted a shameful approach to the debate about giving powers to London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c365cd5cfccf9003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "ntroduction of the Mayor; they opposed the Greater London authority; they opposed the congestion charge; they opposed the Mayor's environmental measures; and now I gather that the Conservatives on the GLA have even said that they want to abolish free bus travel for children. They have gone from snatching the milk from children to snatching their bus tickets instead—still the same old Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c365cd5cfccf9003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "on authority; they opposed the congestion charge; they opposed the Mayor's environmental measures; and now I gather that the Conservatives on the GLA have even said that they want to abolish free bus travel for children. They have gone from snatching the milk from children to snatching their bus tickets instead—still the same old Tories. [Interruption.] They are opposing this new Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c365cd5cfccf9003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "arty. In 2002, the Assembly's own planning advisory committee said: \"If the Mayor refuses to go public of his own accord, we may have no option but to call upon the government to amend the Greater London Authority Act 1999 to require him to hold his planning decision meetings in public.\" I understand that the Mayor has indicated that he might be prepared to consider holding his meetings in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c365cd5cfccf9003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "esentation has led to weaknesses in the way in which it operates. The assembly's only serious power is the ability to veto the budget, but two thirds of assembly members are needed to do so. As the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington said, the Mayor can thus get his budget through the assembly by using a one third blocking minority, which is most of the Labour group and the odd Green —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "c365cd5cfccf9003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "y near neighbour, the right hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford) , as they both spoke as technocrats, without any passion or real interest in the views of the public locally—no \"power to the people\" on the Labour Benches. My hon. Friend the Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) , on the other hand, achieved a much better balance, as she highlighted the needs of London residents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12a.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.705.5", "colnum": "705", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": " highlands and islands. The matter has been raised in discussions that I have had with Highlands and Islands Enterprise and conversations that I had when I visited the highlands and islands. I am aware of the exciting prospects for the university that were raised at the dinner that the right hon. Gentleman kindly hosted with the chief executive and chair of Highlands and Islands Enterprise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.705.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.707.6", "colnum": "707", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "David Cairns", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Cairns", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is talking about cross-patient waiting —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.707.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ruth Kelly", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may like playing with Lego; I do not. I draw his attention to our investment, year in, year out, in local public services. The quality of public services is increasing, as is satisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Prompt!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Younger-Ross", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that as there is no British equivalent of the Iraq Study Group, that the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.733.4", "colnum": "733", "heading": "COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Des Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Des Browne", "preceding_text": "It might have been better for the hon. Gentleman if he had continued to forget the question that he was about to ask —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.733.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "olution—handing power from central Government to London on a series of issues. The Greater London Authority Bill and the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill aim to devolve power to London boroughs as well as to the Mayor to do a better job for London. I have to say that Conservative Members have adopted a shameful approach to the debate about giving powers to London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "ntroduction of the Mayor; they opposed the Greater London authority; they opposed the congestion charge; they opposed the Mayor's environmental measures; and now I gather that the Conservatives on the GLA have even said that they want to abolish free bus travel for children. They have gone from snatching the milk from children to snatching their bus tickets instead—still the same old Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Yvette Cooper", "preceding_text": "on authority; they opposed the congestion charge; they opposed the Mayor's environmental measures; and now I gather that the Conservatives on the GLA have even said that they want to abolish free bus travel for children. They have gone from snatching the milk from children to snatching their bus tickets instead—still the same old Tories. [Interruption.] They are opposing this new Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jacqui Lait", "preceding_text": "arty. In 2002, the assembly's own planning advisory committee said: \"If the Mayor refuses to go public of his own accord, we may have no option but to call upon the government to amend the Greater London Authority Act 1999 to require him to hold his planning decision meetings in public.\" I understand that the Mayor has indicated that he might be prepared to consider holding his meetings in public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Andrew Slaughter", "preceding_text": "I notice that there has been a hastily drafted new priority for the Conservative council in Hammersmith, which is always to prioritise home ownership. What we read into that is that social rented housing is always de-prioritised. I do not wish to detain the House, but this is a fascinating saga—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Richard Ottaway", "preceding_text": "esentation has led to weaknesses in the way in which it operates. The assembly's only serious power is the ability to veto the budget, but two thirds of assembly members are needed to do so. As the hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington said, the Mayor can thus get his budget through the assembly by using a one third blocking minority, which is most of the Labour group and the odd Green —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.796.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-12", "file": "debates2006-12-12b.xml", "sha256": "7608ddad110f7e25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "David Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "David Evennett", "preceding_text": "y near neighbour, the right hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr. Raynsford) , as they both spoke as technocrats, without any passion or real interest in the views of the public locally—no \"power to the people\" on the Labour Benches. My hon. Friend the Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait) , on the other hand, achieved a much better balance, as she highlighted the needs of London residents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-12b.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "fac7bd70bc546d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13b.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "here is somehow a magic bullet that I can fire or a lever that I can crank in the Department to speed up the transition to the new system. If there is one thing that we should be wary of doing it is to assume that people such as me, who have responsibility at the moment, should overrule the advice that I have received from the experts who advise me and impose my judgment about a faster time scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13b.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13b.xml", "sha256": "fac7bd70bc546d15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13b.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "en, a member of a proscribed organisation.\" It is not clear what that means. If one looks at subsection 10, the definition of \"associate\" includes \"a friend...or...relative\". That is a very broad use of language and open to interpretation. Who could be considered to be a friend of mine? I would imagine that everyone in the Chamber would consider themselves to be in that privileged category —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13b.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.858.7", "colnum": "858", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "It is clear that when one compares the amount of money spent on hospitality and travel by this Government, it is a lot less than the amount spent by the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.858.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.859.2", "colnum": "859", "heading": "DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Prescott", "preceding_text": "That is almost as much money as the right hon. Gentleman earns making speeches abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.859.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "Let me explain what is happening in relation to the allowances. I apologise at the outset because some of it is complicated, and this is as I understand it. At the present time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.863.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "of payment. When all of it is amalgamated into one allowance, which is going to be called the longer separation allowance, the amount of credits under that particular part of the longer service at sea bonus will be deemed to be at roughly 60 per cent. That will mean that within that bonus there are those people who have accrued more than 60 per cent. who may receive less than they otherwise would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.863.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "is more than compensated for by the fact that the new allowance is going to be paid at a bigger higher rate—£25 rather than £12.80—and all personnel will be credited with an extra 100 days as the deemed separation. As a result of that, so I am informed, the letter that the Second Sea Lord sent to the Navy and Marines is correct—people will not lose under that benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.863.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.863.4", "colnum": "863", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "owance is going to be paid at a bigger higher rate—£25 rather than £12.80—and all personnel will be credited with an extra 100 days as the deemed separation. As a result of that, so I am informed, the letter that the Second Sea Lord sent to the Navy and Marines is correct—people will not lose under that benefit. [Interruption.] I am sorry, but this is the explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.863.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.864.0", "colnum": "864", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "David Cameron", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "David Cameron", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for that answer. This is complicated and I think that the Prime Minister has shown that when his current career is over, a relaunch of \"Yes, Minister\", with himself as Sir Humphrey, would be very effective. At the heart of this is a simple question: are Ministers reflecting the briefing that they are given? I have the Ministry of Defence briefing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Tony Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tony Blair", "preceding_text": "ases they will gain significantly. That is why the Defence Secretary, when he agreed with the letter that the Second Sea Lord sent to the Navy and Marines, was absolutely accurate. The point in relation to the other allowance—the accumulated turbulence allowance—which arose, I think, in the newspapers this morning in respect of the Grenadiers, is not that they receive less money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.877.2", "colnum": "877", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "John Hutton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "John Hutton", "preceding_text": "here is somehow a magic bullet that I can fire or a lever that I can crank in the Department to speed up the transition to the new system. If there is one thing that we should be wary of doing it is to assume that people such as me, who have responsibility at the moment, should overrule the advice that I have received from the experts who advise me and impose my judgment about a faster time scale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.877.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.913.2", "colnum": "913", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lembit �pik", "preceding_text": "en, a member of a proscribed organisation.\" It is not clear what that means. If one looks at subsection 10, the definition of \"associate\" includes \"a friend...or...relative\". That is a very broad use of language and open to interpretation. Who could be considered to be a friend of mine? I would imagine that everyone in the Chamber would consider themselves to be in that privileged category —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.943.0", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "I have another difficulty with the hon. Gentleman. I understood that all this equality-proofing stuff came from the Belfast agreement, of which he and the SDLP were partly the authors. If he did not trust Departments to do the job, why on earth was it ever written into the arrangements under the Belfast agreement?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.943.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.943.2", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "I know that the quality of civil servants in Northern Ireland has recently been questioned by a Public Accounts Committee report in the House, but to hear a former Minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.943.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-13", "file": "debates2006-12-13c.xml", "sha256": "f8feac70d84b4e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.946.0", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William McCrea", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief. I have listened carefully to the other contributions, including those of the Secretary of State and the spokesman for Her Majesty's Opposition, the hon. Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Lidington) , as well as other Members of all parties. Some of them reacted in a measured fashion, but others have over-egged their opposition to certain measures in the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-13c.946.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "aabf456fe8ea33ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "e Post Office is a grown-up debate on the fact that there have been changes, not caused by anyone in the House or directly by anyone outside, but resulting from the internet, which have dramatically changed the use made of the Post Office. The hon. Gentleman knows that; he also knows that in the unlikely event of the Liberals being in government, they would face precisely the same issues as we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "aabf456fe8ea33ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": " competing for the same customers, which is why the Post Office will take a more active role in ensuring that the right post office in the right place—something the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters supports. But the big problem is that people are simply not using post offices as they once did. Some 4 million fewer people are using post offices each week, compared to just two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "aabf456fe8ea33ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "Federation of Sub-Postmasters supports. But the big problem is that people are simply not using post offices as they once did. Some 4 million fewer people are using post offices each week, compared to just two years ago. [Interruption.] The market in which the post office network operates has changed beyond recognition in the past 10 to 15 years. Traditionally, the post office was the place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "aabf456fe8ea33ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1053.5", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "I did not mean to sound pompous. I was about to say that ICES has given the same advice for the last five years—a period for which I am not sure that my hon. Friend was in the House. I am sorry that the hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) accuses me of being pompous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1053.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "aabf456fe8ea33ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1056.1", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "No doubt, that is because of the excellent Member of Parliament that those fishermen have—who is famous, no doubt, for his helpful interventions on his own Front Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "aabf456fe8ea33ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1056.3", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "atching lobsters at 87 mm, while those in England will be catching lobsters at 90 mm. That will cause tremendous difficulties in determining whether catching cross-border lobsters that travel from Scottish to English waters will be illegal and for the fishermen of those crustaceans. I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, which was considerably more helpful than the previous one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1056.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "aabf456fe8ea33ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "It was interesting to hear the opening statement of the hon. Member for Leominster (Bill Wiggin) in which he demanded stronger leadership in a direction yet to be decided by the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "aabf456fe8ea33ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Same speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "ost of First Minister for Scotland. But do not worry: in that position, if I accede to it, I shall cast an eye over the fisheries debate and look favourably on the progress of the Minister and other former colleagues. It has been my pleasure to listen to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) for all of those 20 years—I believe that he has spoken in every single one of the debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.995.0", "colnum": "995", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Barry Gardiner", "preceding_text": "I am delighted that for once the hon. Gentleman has recognised the vast amount of investment that this Government have put in to clear the safety backlog—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.995.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.996.4", "colnum": "996", "heading": "ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Laurence Robertson", "preceding_text": "pect an improvement. It is bad enough that the 2005 payments were paid so late—thousands of pounds are still owed to farmers in my constituency, who have made environmental improvements to qualify for the payments. If I now go back to my farmers and say that I cannot tell them what the improvements will be and that the Secretary of State does not have any confidence about improvements—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.996.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The business for next week will be as follows: Monday 18 December —Second Reading of the Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Bill. Tuesday 19 December —Motion on the Christmas recess Adjournment. The business for the week commencing 8 January will be: Monday 8 January —Second Reading of the Statistics and Registration Service Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "ice is a grown-up debate on the fact that there have been changes—not caused by anyone in the House or directly by anyone outside, but resulting from the internet—which have dramatically changed the use made of the Post Office. The hon. Gentleman knows that; he also knows that in the unlikely event of the Liberals being in government, they would face precisely the same issues as we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why weren't we invited?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "First, may I thank the Leader of the House for his generous hospitality at Dover house on Tuesday evening? It was a most convivial occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1016.3", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "I hope that I get no parliamentary questions about this, but I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his acknowledgement of our hospitality. I should say to hon. Members on both sides of the House that it was an entirely ecumenical gathering, to which members of relevant Select Committees were invited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1016.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "eting for the same customers, which is why the Post Office will take a more active role in ensuring that the right post office is in the right place—something the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters supports. But the big problem is that people are simply not using post offices as they once did. Some 4 million fewer people are using post offices each week, compared with just two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "deration of Sub-Postmasters supports. But the big problem is that people are simply not using post offices as they once did. Some 4 million fewer people are using post offices each week, compared with just two years ago. [Interruption.] The market in which the post office network operates has changed beyond recognition in the past 10 to 15 years. Traditionally, the post office was the place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1035.3", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I understand the hon. Gentleman's point, and I think that I am right that there are many more post offices than PayPoint facilities in his constituency. The decision on PayPoint and licence fees was taken by the BBC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1035.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1038.3", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Graham Stuart", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State told the House that the Government were going to continue with the Post Office card account and that the card account would be put out to tender. We could end up with a continuing Post Office card account that is not run by the Post Office. Will the Secretary of State please explain that, because I fear that a deceit is being played on rural communities and others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1038.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1041.4", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Nick Herbert", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Secretary of State said that he thought that post offices were a problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1041.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1041.5", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Alistair Darling", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was present when I delivered my statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1041.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1053.3", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend may recall, though she has not been a Member of the House for as long as me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1053.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1053.5", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ben Bradshaw", "preceding_text": "I did not mean to sound pompous. I was about to say that ICES has given the same advice for the past five years—a period for which I am not sure that my hon. Friend was in the House. I am sorry that the hon. Member for West Chelmsford (Mr. Burns) accuses me of being pompous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1053.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Bill Wiggin", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention because it gives me the opportunity to talk about Conservative party policy on fishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1079.0", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "It was interesting to hear the opening statement of the hon. Member for Leominster (Bill Wiggin) in which he demanded stronger leadership in a direction yet to be decided by the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1079.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1083.0", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Same speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Alex Salmond", "preceding_text": "o the post of First Minister for Scotland. But do not worry: in that position, if I accede to it, I shall cast an eye over the fisheries debate and look favourably on the progress of the Minister and other former colleagues. It has been my pleasure to listen to the hon. Member for Great Grimsby (Mr. Mitchell) for all of those 20 years—I believe that he has spoken in every one of the debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-14", "file": "debates2006-12-14b.xml", "sha256": "beaf4a50337752af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1096.9", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Point of Order", "cue_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No. More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Emily Thornberry", "preceding_text": "ng. Perhaps my Government could consider that idea. Let me read another letter from a year 4 pupil: \"Dear David Miliband MP. I want you to protect our sea because if people keep killing all the fish there won't be any left and we won't have any food left either and we really want you to protect them. Yours sincerely, Sian.\" So there have been letters, posters and petitions. I want to finish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-14b.1096.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9fc2c877e9994597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18a.1141.5", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Guardian.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "BC. Those negotiations on the licence fee will continue and I hope that they will be concluded very soon, within the terms that I set out to my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire, North (Jim Sheridan) . On the day after Michael Grade stepped down as chairman of the BBC, I put in train the arrangements for his replacement. The advertisements will go out early in the new year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18a.1141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9fc2c877e9994597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. The reality of the NHS that the Conservatives left us in 1997 was bed blocking—an annual winter crisis that was the norm, as it was nothing to do with the particular winter in which it occurred. Patients were lying on trolleys for hours in hospitals all over the country, shocking waiting lists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "9fc2c877e9994597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": " also attract more highly skilled staff, which will benefit the borough of Havering and neighbouring boroughs. I suspect that the hon. Gentleman should have titled his press release this week, \"A Christmas Present from the Labour Government\", but he would not do that because he is intent on coming here to draw attention to the negatives rather than the positives. I want to deal specifically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1141.5", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "BBC", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Guardian.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": " chairman for the BBC. Those negotiations on the licence fee will continue and I hope that they will be concluded very soon, within the terms that I set out to my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, South (Miss Begg) . On the day after Michael Grade stepped down as chairman of the BBC, I put in train the arrangements for his replacement. The advertisements will go out early in the new year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1141.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "ITV", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Unless those assets are something to do with the Roman empire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "William Hague", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "William Hague", "preceding_text": "said at the summit: \"We are prepared to give up the veto on some security issues\". Will she say what those issues are? Does the Foreign Secretary not agree with the European Scrutiny Committee that the use of the so-called gangplank clause would be of \"constitutional importance\" and, as the Committee said, \"it is vital that there should be no doubt or equivocation about the Government's position\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1164.7", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "CHURCH COMMISSIONERS", "cue_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Foreign Secretary whether in the margins of the Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1164.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Tessa Jowell", "preceding_text": "Well, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Hugo Swire", "preceding_text": "I may disagree with my hon. Friend on that point, but later, I shall try to tease out from the Government what switchover will cost, and what they will do with the vacated spectrum. It is not necessary for us, in opposition, to go into too much detail until we know the costs of the project, and how the Government, who are in charge of it, intend to fund it. So what is going on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Sing it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "Members who are at the chalk face of digital switchover—none more so than the hon. Member for Copeland (Mr. Reed) . He reintroduced us to his constituency, pointing out that it had the deepest lake and the highest mountain in Britain, reminding me of the Ike and Tina Turner song \"River Deep, Mountain High\", which was no doubt written about Whitehaven, where the hon. Gentleman went to school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1237.1", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Edward Vaizey", "preceding_text": "rom the Minister, which is an opportunity that most of us would take if we could find a good enough excuse. He also asked for financial help for his constituency—another opportunity that most of us would take. There has to be serious concern about whether the Government can meet their self-imposed timetable. The hon. Member for Glasgow, North-West, who gave an extremely relaxed speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I do not indulge him in giving him an answer to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day", "cue_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Shaun Woodward", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman will forgive me if I do not indulge him in giving him an answer to that. [Interruption.] However, if the hon. Member for Wantage can contain himself, I will address part of that issue later, although my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made it perfectly clear when she set out that figure this afternoon that she would give more detailed information at the beginning of next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1255.0", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "NEW HOSPITAL (ROMFORD)", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "es are nationally with regard to the future of the NHS. It may not be appropriate, Mr. Speaker, to use the word \"hypocrisy\" at this time of year, so I shall rest on the word \"inconsistency\" in respect of what Conservative Members say in their own constituencies, what they say in the House and the action they took in voting against the investment. Let us go down memory lane for a few moments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "NEW HOSPITAL (ROMFORD)", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am not giving way. The reality of the NHS that the Conservatives left us in 1997 was bed blocking—an annual winter crisis that was the norm, as it was nothing to do with the particular winter in which it occurred. Patients were lying on trolleys for hours in hospitals all over the country, shocking waiting lists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-18", "file": "debates2006-12-18b.xml", "sha256": "501b7785b2da12a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "NEW HOSPITAL (ROMFORD)", "cue_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ivan Lewis", "preceding_text": " also attract more highly skilled staff, which will benefit the borough of Havering and neighbouring boroughs. I suspect that the hon. Gentleman should have titled his press release this week, \"A Christmas Present from the Labour Government\", but he would not do that because he is intent on coming here to draw attention to the negatives rather than the positives. I want to deal specifically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-18b.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-19", "file": "debates2006-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "863c4327ce9cef2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19b.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "I did not come into politics to see any kind of damage done to legal aid or advice. This scheme is the best way forward to ensure the best services, particularly for the socially excluded who are very dear to our hearts. A week ago, there was a debate in Westminster Hall and the Liberal Democrats were totally missing from it, while many of my own Back Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19b.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-19", "file": "debates2006-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "863c4327ce9cef2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19b.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "a debate in Westminster Hall and the Liberal Democrats were totally missing from it, while many of my own Back Benchers— [Interruption.] I gather that the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) was there, but he said not a word. Innumerable Labour Back Benchers expressed real concern about social exclusion and gave real voice to it—and the hon. Gentleman did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19b.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-19", "file": "debates2006-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "863c4327ce9cef2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19b.1279.3", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "There is absolutely no connection between the two. Means-testing is an appropriate system to stop the scandalous events that occurred when the cases of people who could well afford to pay for their own criminal defences were paid none the less by the taxpayers in Redcar and those in the hon. Lady's constituency, whose interests she does not appear at the moment to be protecting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19b.1279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-19", "file": "debates2006-12-19b.xml", "sha256": "863c4327ce9cef2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19b.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "eing met by 26 March . If they are not met, I do not believe that we can go on with the form of direct rule that we have had for so long. There must be ways of dealing with Northern Ireland business in a much more accountable way in this House. I want to raise two or three issues, but I shall try to keep my contribution to 10 minutes because I know that many other hon. Members want to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19b.1339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-19", "file": "debates2006-12-19c.xml", "sha256": "d3f60792f54c2fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "I did not come into politics to see any kind of damage done to legal aid or advice. This scheme is the best way forward to ensure the best services, particularly for the socially excluded, who are very dear to our hearts. A week ago, there was a debate in Westminster Hall and the Liberal Democrats were totally missing from it, while many of my own Back Benchers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-19", "file": "debates2006-12-19c.xml", "sha256": "d3f60792f54c2fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1277.0", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "a debate in Westminster Hall and the Liberal Democrats were totally missing from it, while many of my own Back Benchers— [Interruption.] I gather that the hon. Member for North Southwark and Bermondsey (Simon Hughes) was there, but he said not a word. Innumerable Labour Back Benchers expressed real concern about social exclusion and gave real voice to it—and the hon. Gentleman did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-19", "file": "debates2006-12-19c.xml", "sha256": "d3f60792f54c2fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "ation has been carried out extensively, and certainly since I came into office, I have hardly stopped consulting. I spent the whole summer doing it, and I talk frequently to the not-for-profit sector and to professional providers. Let hon. Members have no hesitation in accepting from me that, going forward, all of this will be done in close liaison with the not-for-profit sector and practitioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-19", "file": "debates2006-12-19c.xml", "sha256": "d3f60792f54c2fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1279.3", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Vera Baird", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Vera Baird", "preceding_text": "There is absolutely no connection between the two. Means-testing is an appropriate system to stop the scandalous events that occurred when the cases of people who could well afford to pay for their own criminal defence were funded none the less by the taxpayers in Redcar and those in the hon. Lady's constituency, whose interests she does not appear at the moment to be protecting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-19", "file": "debates2006-12-19c.xml", "sha256": "d3f60792f54c2fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1334.1", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Christopher Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Christopher Fraser", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. May I say, without lifting the petition again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "2006-12-19", "file": "debates2006-12-19c.xml", "sha256": "d3f60792f54c2fd3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "ROYAL ASSENT", "cue_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sammy Wilson", "preceding_text": "eing met by 26 March . If they are not met, I do not believe that we can go on with the form of direct rule that we have had for so long. There must be ways of dealing with Northern Ireland business in a much more accountable way in this House. I want to raise two or three issues, but I shall try to keep my contribution to 10 minutes because I know that many other hon. Members want to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/2006-12-19c.1339.0"}